Curated by Claudia Melis and Chiara Peru

Inauguration: 6 April, 6.00 pm

Museo Nivola is pleased to present Sarah Revoltella's solo show You May Say I Am a Dreamer . The project focuses on a contemporaneity characterized by conflict and the imposition of totalizing logics that tend to cancel diversity in the name of a single model of thought.
Against this vision that impoverishes the multiplicity of reality, art can constitute an instrument of analysis, reflection and finally of resistance.
The exhibition presents for the first time to the public the large tapestry Stars and conflicts created in collaboration with the weavers of Nule led by the textile designer Eugenia Pinna. By superimposing the celestial map of black holes elaborated by NASA with the terrestrial map that visualizes the wars currently taking place all over the world, Revoltella alludes to the negative energy released by conflicts in a spiral of violence that takes on cosmic dimensions.
The artist contrasts this negativity with the positive force of human work and shared effort. As Revoltella affirms, through the collaboration between artists and craftswomen, "a collective project is created, in which each weaving point also becomes a symbolic act aimed at disarmament", heightening "the awareness that we are also what we produce".
The same theme is found in Io Combatto , another work present in the exhibition, which through installations and performances overturns the destructive potential of weapons, making them a symbol of fragility and hope at the same time.
The refusal of war is also the celebration of diversity: in the large installation Polarizzazione a row of colored ceramic figurines show us with humor and lightness a variegated humanity that refuses to allow itself to be classified within Manichean schemes and to be locked up in fixed identities. The whole project is animated by a utopian gaze that may perhaps appear naive, but in reality it is based on the assumption, already formulated by Bronislaw Baczko, that utopias - even if impossible by definition - actually function as ideas-guides and ideas- strength capable of orienting and mobilizing hopes and of soliciting collective energies.