“I confess” is the sentence that introduces artist Raffaela Naldi Rossano’s installation at der TANK. Based in Naples, Raffaela is linked to the Art Institute HGK FHNW in many ways, from her participation in the Venice Summer School to her hosting of students in Naples, where she has initiated and runs an artist residency program.

What comes first, day or night? There is no right answer. They are eternally consecutive, as are the elements displayed in the two rooms. A wall painting of a wave breaks through both spaces. First, we find a series of coral-shaped wooden sculptures, leading us on to the obscurity of the ocean’s depths; there we are greeted by a new family of digitally animated corals, forming and coming apart, playfully giving us a new insight into their morphology.
The exhibition is an invitation to meditate on our approach to vulnerable ecosystems and the danger they are facing due to human activity. And it is also about regeneration, the possibility of life, of the re-emergence of life after destruction.

Lecture within the framework of: "Radio Disaster: The Climate Change Series" by Mudam Luxembourg Museum

When she started writing the Corona Tales, Chus Martínez had been weighing how people and the media were addressing the outbreak of the virus as an unprecedented disaster. One possible contribution, as curator and writer, would be to write a short story a day and post it on an Instagram account that many could access…

In essays, poems, sketches, and photographs, twenty authors challenge the exclusive human claim to intelligence.

I've been writing these notes continuously for years but I never thought about publishing them. These pages gather some thoughts on artists who continue to be a source of motivation for me to invest in complexity and who also all possess a rare sense of humor. I write these texts mostly at the end of a working day or in the very early morning, which for me are not the hours for argumentation. They expose no foreseeable line of research or an unequivocal sequence of arguments.

In essays, poems, sketches, and photographs, twenty authors challenge the exclusive human claim to intelligence.