Collective Left Elbow

Collective research intends to deepen this link by serving the henhouse as a system of continuous reorganization, acting as a meeting of insights and not as a closed circle of subjects. In this perspective, the indeterminacy of the group becomes (in)determinant practice to accommodate the unexpected, which suggests greater complexity. We have gathered out of common affinity and tension to think the roost as neophytes, not by letting ourselves be tamed by its logic, observing that it is the experience itself that charts a course. In the days of Art Week we will endeavor to articulate the conclusions that have emerged during these months of reporting. Progetto Pollaio presents itself together as a collective and exhibition, having not found it necessary to separate the two instances.

Opera

Chicken Coop Project

An old chicken coop, scarred by time and suspended atop a Renaissance tower in the historic center of Bracciano, caught our attention and marked the starting point. The chicken coop is a typically rural phenomenon, an organized structure for the productivity and containment of the living. Educated in the urban context, this system of food sustenance appears only in accounts of a past we have not shared, to a practical knowledge that has not been passed on to us. Yet in its details, we find something surprisingly close to the city and its power dynamics. That considered, the chicken coop is the filter through which we narrate our shared experience as citizens aware of being part of a productive system regulated by an ideology that grows on us among its logics of exploitation and consumption, the reading we give to the social dynamics we live every day. The city itself is configured as a set of enclosures and structures where the control and planning of spaces dictate how we inhabit, live and relate to the Other. 

Artists on display

Mateusz Dalla Torre

Alexander Ianni

Maia Evangelisti

Michela Alamprese

Alexander Sorrentino

Anna Mazzone

Cecilia Carmine