Exhibition OPENING

Saturday 21 March at 3.00 pm RAVE East Village Artist Residency, Soleschiano (Manzano, Udine),

artists: Camilla Alberti, Simona Da Pozzo, Jakup Ferri, Igor Grubić, Giulia Iacolutti, Ilare, Ryts Monet, Liliana Moro, Maria Elisabetta Novello, Penzo+Fiore, Isabella and Tiziana Pers, Nada Prlja, Danilo Sciorilli, Driant Zeneli.

The project is realised with the support of the Autonomous Region of Friuli Venezia Giulia #IOSONOFRIULIVENEZIAIULIA and the Fondazione Friuli, in partnership with: the Municipality of Trivignano Udinese, ALL/University of Udine, Fondazione Pistoletto Cittadellarte, Trieste Contemporanea, Arteventi, with the support of Biolab – Plant Based Food. Main partner: Arsenalia

RAVE East Village Artist Residency is a meta-project created by the artists Isabella and Tiziana Pers together with Giovanni Marta and a sanctuary for rescued animals and trees
www.raveresidency.art info.raveresidency@gmail.com 324.8628511

Curatorial assistants: Irene Emanuele and Sofia Sorrentino.

The event will feature a walk through the village with an interspecies guided tour, exploring the works on display. The exhibition unfolds as a scattered route throughout the village: the works are scattered amongst the ancient stone houses and centuries-old trees, transforming the landscape into a space for experience and connection.

The exhibition RAVE AL SOLE stems from the experience of living alongside the animals and trees rescued and taken in by the village, weaving artistic practices with reflections on posthuman and anti-speciesist thought: these ‘other’ presences take centre stage, such as the figure of Copper, a mare in her late thirties who recently passed away at RAVE, whose personality inspired a wealth of reflections over many years.

In this sense, RAVE is a participatory, ever-evolving work-in-progress that intertwines contemporary art with concrete responsibility, generating over time an ecosystem of coexistence between human and non-human life forms.

The works are articulated through a plurality of languages that challenge hierarchies between species and invite us to imagine new forms of coexistence. Beneath the branches of a centuries-old mulberry tree saved from felling and transplanted to the RAVE site, the project invites us to adopt a different stance in the world: to recognise ourselves as living beings amongst living beings, beyond the divisions of species, gender, class or culture.

The works oscillate between political tension and an intimate dimension, suggesting that every collective transformation arises from a shift in perspective and the emergence of new shared narratives.

At the time of the spring equinox and the end of winter, the title plays on the name of the place where the experience takes root, alluding at the same time to Plato’s exit from the cave, in search of a potentially different truth, of a place in the light. ‘Staying in the sun’ as a metaphor for regeneration and collective connection, beneath the rays of the primary and universal source of life: 800 years after the death of St Francis, the Canticle of the Creatures, the only non-anthropocentric reference in the Christian tradition, begins precisely with the image of Brother Sun.