From 10 April to 10 May 2023 Claudia De Luca is present in Turin at the Polo del '900 with the exhibition " THE DAY AFTER THE REVOLUTION " curated by Elisabetta Mero. The artist creates nine groups of works that each refer to a single revolutionary act. In fact, each group of works refers to a failed revolution, a moment in history in which everything would have been possible, but which, "the day after", died out in an indistinct and silent magma. However, in their fall, failed revolutions open up a new horizon, because it is precisely from failure that a different political (and revolutionary) word can be rewritten and practiced.

The exhibition, hosted in the Sala Voltoni of the Polo del '900, takes its cue from the phrase of F. Engels: "Those who have boasted of having made a revolution have always seen, the next day, that they did not know what they were doing, that the revolution they had made was nothing like the one they wanted to make." This reflection is the starting point of Claudia De Luca's project who, as an artist and professor of history and philosophy, reflects on the health condition of the word politics . A word that very often measures its capacity for existence in the failure of its revolutionary power.

“How many times in history (just like in life) have we planned a revolution which, once completed, has given us back a merciless image of it? – says Claudia De Luca – With THE DAY AFTER THE REVOLUTION I mean precisely this outcome: the moment in which the irrepressible force of the possible crashes into a faded reality where the manifesto of the day before has become an incomprehensible dark text. We turn around and no longer recognize the point from which we started”. 

The works on display are created like posters on which the political word is represented as a sudden splash of color that emerges from the darkness of history. The artist was supported by Anonima impressori, a graphic studio and artisan printing house in Bologna, for the creation of captions/posters that accompany the works on display. In fact, each caption describes a revolution and the fonts chosen are those that were in use in that historical period.