On Saturday, 1 October, from 12:00 to 8:00 pm, Ex Elettrofonica is pleased to announce the inauguration of the exhibition Parade, a new project from Guendalina Salini and the artist’s second solo show at the gallery.

Through a complete installation of the space, amiable to Guendalina Salini’s inclusive spirit, we witness the transformation of the gallery into a primordial cave, a contemporary reworking of the famous Grotte de Lascaux, from which the work takes several cues. The gallery will be filled with elements that echo the cave paintings and that run in an eternal circular carousel, juxtaposed with modern signs and symbols of our supposed progress.

To develop Parade, the artist weaves a conceptual framework based on several sources: from LASCAUX the birth of art by Georges Batailles to Werner Herzog’s documentary Cave of forgotten dreams, to The Aesthetics of Disappearance by Paul Virilio and the reflections of the Americana anthropologist Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing.

The artist writes: The installation recalls a diorama, the pre-cinema, in a sort of macabre dance about impermanence and our state of being in passage, but it contains the regenerative and vital possibility of that trembling spirit Bataille speaks of in reference to Lascaux, and that Anna Tzing teaches us to seek with new life stories among the ruins, with creative practices and alliances. A total work that draws us in, an inner and hidden experience that speaks of the power of the archaic as an antidote to modernity, an experience outside of time, or rather, inside time, because it lies within a mythical and magical time, where a bison can attack a helicopter and ancient warriors stand next to new struggles, migrants of today have guide animals and totems as a reference, standing alongside nomadic peoples.