Consisting of about 60 artworks, the exhibition starts with a major installation that consist of millions of pieces of broken glass and mirror that cover most of the main exhibition space. As viewers walk on this reflecting surface of debris, they also move along the space of memory, and while engaged in self-reflection, they are invited to think over some difficult moments of our collective history. The remains of the lessons of history become the ground for hope and cultural rebirth.

In a second space, the artist orchestrates a dialogue with a 1970 work by Mario Merz titled “Sciopero generale azione politica relativa proclamata relativamente all’arte”, bringing it to our present times through a poetic and nostalgic mise-en-scene.

Accompanying the exhibition is a catalog published by Fondazione Merz with essays by Claudia Gioia, an unpublished poem from the sixties by Nanni Balestrini and an interview of the artist by Luigi Fassi.

Alfredo Jaar (Santiago del Chile, 1956) is an artist, architect and filmmaker. His work has been shown extensively around the world. Simultaneous to his exhibition at the Fondazione Merz, the artist has been selected for the last edition of Torino’s Luci d’Artista that opened November 1. The artist has created a permanent work for the façade of the Biblioteca Nazionale di Torino.