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The show

The Backwards Ahead exhibition presents a nucleus of works from the Sandretto Re Rebaudengo Collection which relate to the concepts of time, history and trial. Through the languages of sculpture, installation and photography, the artists in the exhibition question the notion of linear time, on which the Western conception of history is based. This vision considers what is "forward/ahead" as a sequence of events with no return and what is "backwards" as something that can only be reconstructed through a continuous search for evidence, historical or judicial traces, which demonstrate the veracity of the events.

Within Backwards Ahead the artistic perspectives instead embrace a plural temporality, composed of anachronisms, cyclicalities and multiple dimensions. In this alternative reality, some works deal with history in the light of the ephemeral status of the document, others produce remakes and counterfeits, still others institute counter-trials.


The title of the exhibition is borrowed from the work of the same name by the artist Kiran Subbaiah, a closed circuit installation that involves the visitor in a deferred control system, which reverses the space-time coordinates of those who pass through it. The works of Simon Starling and Slavs and Tatars decline time as an economic-productive cycle and as a course destined to repeat itself in an eternal loop. Liz Glynn, Goshka Macuga, Yinka Shonibare confront material culture, institutional politics and the construction of cultural identity, through the copying, falsification and re-enactment of the past. Paul Graham, June Crespo, Josh Kline, Andra Ursuţa adopt a forensic register, chase clues and proofs, finally expose or perform the paradoxical functions of the supervisory and disciplinary bodies.

Through the various perspectives, the works presented in Backwards Ahead trace circular and oblique motions, they advance and withdraw. In this continuous movement, they make the passage of time reversible, notify appeals and sentences, reimagine the balance of power between oppressors and oppressors.

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Address

Via Modane, 16
10141 Turin

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