lo Squaderno (Sep 2016)
The Province of the South
Abstract
In the field of contemporary art nothing could be worse than to be described as provincial. In a sphere where novelty, mobility and connectedness are the most highly valued signs, the image of the province is loaded with a curse that is saturated with the melancholic rut of repetition, stagnation and isolation. The dreaded load of the province is to be stuck when everyone else is on the move. This curse is nowhere more heavily felt than in the former colonial spaces of the South. And yet, in and from the South the idea of provincialism has been radically redefined.
