On Saturday, June 29th starting at 6:30 pm, the SoutHeritage Foundation for Contemporary Art is pleased to invite you to the opening of the exhibition project: "CONTEMPORARY APPARATUS: Robert Barry | Joachim Mogarra | Vera Molnár | Gabriel Orozco".

The SoutHeritage Foundation, as an institution driven by the desire to contribute to cultural development to produce expanded knowledge and consolidate artistic expressions in society by making them visible, relevant, and meaningful, promotes the exhibition project: "Contemporary Apparatus". As part of its institutional evolution, as an institution based on exhibitions, the foundation positions itself as an active public facilitator, aiming to strengthen the cultural ecosystem of the territory by focusing on the dialogue between exhibition contents and the reception of contemporary creation. In this context, the exhibition, designed with works that interact with each other and in dialogue with the peculiarities of the foundation's current exhibition space (a noble chapel part of a building complex from the 16th-18th centuries - Palazzo Viceconte, located in the historic Sassi districts of Matera - UNESCO Heritage), is dedicated to questioning the role of contemporary art works and the public, along with their path of fruition, with the aim of creating a dialogue on access to contemporary art and its values, on the viewer of visual art in our days, and on the "exhibition format" as the organization of an experiential context for the public.

To compose the exhibition project and offer a reinterpretation of the environments and their atmospheres, the works of the artists ROBERT BARRY, JOACHIM MOGARRA, VERA MOLNÁR, GABRIEL OROZCO have been chosen. With their works held together by an open scenography, the exhibition, through the universes of each artist and without imposing a specific theme or artificially connecting their artistic practices, places the viewer's perspective at the center, no longer just called to understand a system of representation like "history", "art", or "art history" but also the individual works as "meaning mechanisms". In this context, questioning the role of cultural information, the foundation aims to make the visitor an active and critical participant, considering the exhibition project as a tool for inclusion and knowledge that guides the public through a multidirectional path that transforms the exhibition into a sort of "critical space" where the works are left open to individual approaches.

Thus, themes related to our time such as technology, community, ecology, coloniality, identification, manifest themselves without being explicitly declared in an exhibition that intertwines a varied plot of themes and aspects of art and contemporaneity, in a fluid and complex manner at the same time. With a curatorial approach that directly poses to the visitor and viewer the question about the status of what they are observing at that moment, the exhibition, conceived as a discursive, critical, and self-critical space-time, is set up as a problematic zone in which to position oneself in relation to the significance that the works can assume.