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HYPHEN PROJECTS - It might include or avoid feelings


There are those, like Gio Ponti or Nanda Vigo, that do not distinguish between architecture and design and fluidly sway across different fields. There are those, like Carlo Scarpa, that employ time as malleable matter. And then there are Alessandro Mendini’s and Gae Aulenti’s subversive projects and Cini Boeri’s performative sofas, challenging the body and its presence in public. When Sottsass started designing machines, he realized that objects of everyday use, lying around one next to the other and surrounding people, can influence not only physical conditions but also emotions. They can touch the nerves, the blood, the muscles, the eyes and the moods of people. Design, subjected as it is to the laws of supply and demand, is often a close mirror not only of aesthetic revolution but also of social evolution. A project often charged by political ideology. Imagination, class and socialism running free. And then there was Postmodernism, co-opting activism and embracing capitalism. We want to appropriate this history, as if it was part of a hidden DNA; a subconscious impulse, which appeared once in a dream and we are not yet ready to unlock.

The artists featured in the show employ architecture and product design, decorative features, domestic items, functional objects, as reference in their work: fictional nodes unfolding broader narratives and reflections on contemporaneity. By bringing spatial and physical features to the point of abstraction whilst observing historical figures and approaches to functionality, themes as consumerism, desire, class and power emerge. Capitalism is questioned through object quotation, pursued and mocked through the representation of its own desire mechanisms. Taking Milan as starting points for artistic observation, its history of creative experimentation rooted in the industry–a defining aspect of its identity–, artists aim at reconfiguring the present by merging sources of inspiration and discourse.

Attilia Fattori Franchini is an independent curator and writer based in London and Vienna. She is cofounder of the nonprofit platform Opening Times and contributes essays and reviews to international publications such as Mousse, CURA, and Flash Art International. She is the curator of BMW Open Work by Frieze; Curva Blu, a residency project in Favignana, Sicily; the Emergent section of miart, Milan and is currently preparing upcoming exhibitions in Milan and Naples. Recent projects include: Falling Awake, a film program for Vienna Contemporary (2019); the #061 Termoli Art Prize, Italy (2019); Could you visit me in dreams? as part of curated_by 2018, Vienna; Red Lake at Point Centre for Contemporary Art, Nicosia (2018); and ARS17+ at Kiasma, Museum, Helsinki (2017). Selected past projects include: Céu Torto, Boatos Fine Arts, São Paulo (2017); Morning uber, evening oscillators, Seventeen, London (2016); Europa and the Bull at LambdaLambdaLambda, Pristina, Kosovo (2016); Kuvan Kevät, Kuvat Academy of Fine Arts, Helsinki (2015); Bold Tendencies, London (2015); and HAND, Barbican Centre, London (2013).

hyphen PROJECTS

is a space born of a strongly felt necessity to explore the role of the curator.

Curatorship has become an essential practice in the art world today. In a system dominated by the often risky and unpredictable art market; the traditional role of galleries, collectors and art critics has drastically changed showing the need for new professional figures such as art advisors and curators. If art advisors have taken over the sales side of the contemporary art market, independent curators seem to have taken charge over its intellectual and cutting-edge research side, maintaining an independent stance in the art world.

As innovative aesthetic and poetic research struggles to flourish within the restrictive dynamics of the contemporary art market, it is in the hands of independent curators that the most innovative and philosophically forefront research has proven to thrive. This is why #hyphenprojects does not intend to present an artist-based yearly program but a curator-based program instead, dissociating from the traditional gallery system.

hyphen PROJECTS invites each curator to spend a two-week residency in Milan and carry on an in loco research on artists based or gravitating around the city. Every exhibition is, therefore, the result of the unique relationship born from the dialogue between a given curator and the city of Milan. #hyphenprojects also intends to be a link between the curators who are part of its program. For the duration of a year, each curator is invited to relate and dialogue with the other curators, creating a choral dynamic rarely found in the art system. hyphen intends to be a link in between these curators, hoping to give birth to nourishing relationships overliving the project itself.

hyphen PROJECTS is a space where individualities, while maintaining their singular nature, can be linked to one another and, at the same time, to a given city; creating constantly renewing moments for dialogue and meaning, in a dynamic resembling that of the hyphenation.

hyphen is a two-week residency for curators.
Each curator is encouraged to relate with a given city.

hyphen is also a one-year project, composed of 5 exhibitions. Each exhibition is the result of the residency of one curator and is conceived in dialogue with the remaining 4.
The project has chosen #milano as its first base.

hyphen is not a gallery.
It does not have a fixed artist list.
It does not depend on traditional gallery dynamics.


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