"Of Beasts, Men and Gods" is a unique art exhibition that challenges "absolute" interpretations and explores what is not understood or omitted in knowledge processes. The artist, Masini, employs allegorical compositions to identify the imaginary, the incomprehensible, and the unknown as alternative tools for knowledge formation. The exhibition creates an inclusive space where individualism and multitude converge and complement each other.

"Red and Blue, Blue and Red: A Practice of Collecting That Does Not Seek to Retrieve" is a work of art that takes the viewer on an imaginative journey through reflection and vision. It invites the viewer to engage in exercises of reflection and vision, experiencing an imaginative and dreamlike journey that leads to an indefinite space where the viewer can lose themselves only to find themselves again.

Artist Bio

Niccolò Masini (1989) Artist and researcher. Masini's work is situated in the realm of narrative in images and craft, as well as anthropology and poetry. Scrutinizing the legacies carried within the politics of time, space and memory, his research relates tangible and intangible migratory processes, analyzing their mappings and traces as a starting point in the re-discovery of the indeterminate, the unknown, the unquantifiable. Through a multidisciplinary, his work articulates moving images, audio/visual installations, experimental ethnography, painting, research and teaching. His recent projects revolve around issues of displacement, diaspora, processes of territorialization and deterritorialization, the archive and the histories and legacies of colonialism.

Currently, his artistic research focuses on the Islands of Time project. The project seeks to transcend a linear conception of time by relating the formulation of intangible belonging and the construction of geographic identity, reconsidering past, present, and future issues as profoundly intertwined in a global geopolitical context. With the support of the Miller-Zillmer Foundation in Berlin and the Project Anywhere Program 2019/2022, the research extends to several locations strongly impacted by migratory phenomena, geographic boundaries and related political shifts: El Boujdour Refugee camp / Western Sahara territories (2019), Genoa / Italy (2020/2022), Ventimiglia - Menton / Italian France border (2021), Aeolian Islands / Italy (2021) and Buenos Aires / Argentina (2021).