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La Terra Inquieta

The exhibition at the Triennale di Milano charts both experiences and perceptions of migration and the current refugee crisis as an epoch-making transformation.

"La Terra Inquieta", veduta della mostra, Triennale di Milano, 2017

“La Terra Inquieta” borrows its title from a collection of poems by Édouard Glissant, a Caribbean writer who probed the question of how different cultures can coexist. The exhibition shares in Glissant’s project – a pressing and necessary one that tries to describe this unstable and agitated present as a polyphony of voices and narrative.

"La Terra Inquieta", exhibition view, Triennale di Milano, 2017

"La Terra Inquieta", exhibition view, Triennale di Milano, 2017

"La Terra Inquieta", exhibition view, Triennale di Milano, 2017

"La Terra Inquieta", exhibition view, Triennale di Milano, 2017

"La Terra Inquieta", exhibition view, Triennale di Milano, 2017

"La Terra Inquieta", exhibition view, Triennale di Milano, 2017

"La Terra Inquieta", exhibition view, Triennale di Milano, 2017

"La Terra Inquieta", exhibition view, Triennale di Milano, 2017

"La Terra Inquieta", exhibition view, Triennale di Milano, 2017

Through the works of more than sixty artists from thirty-nine countries – such as Albania, Algeria, Bangladesh, Egypt, Ghana, Iraq, Lebanon, Morocco, Syria, and Turkey – this exhibition charts both experiences and perceptions of migration and the current refugee crisis as an epoch-making transformation that is reframing contemporary history, geography, and culture.

"La Terra Inquieta", exhibition view, Triennale di Milano, 2017

Through installations, videos, documentary images, historical sources, and material artifacts, “La Terra Inquieta” explores real and imaginary geographies, reconstructing the odyssey of migrants through personal and collective tales of exodus inspired by varying degrees of urgency and longing. The exhibition revolves around a series of geographic and thematic lines of inquiry – the war in Syria, the state of emergency in Lampedusa, life in refugee camps, the figure of the nomad or stateless person, and Italian migration in the early 20th century – which intersect with works that serve as visual metaphors for conditions of mobility and precariousness.

"La Terra Inquieta", exhibition view, Triennale di Milano, 2017

until 20 August 2017
La Terra Inquieta
curated by Massimiliano Gioni
Triennale di Milano
viale Alemagna 6, Milan

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