Elisa Rusca

The Italian National Institute for Contemporary Art (I.N.A.C) invited me to curate an exhibition for the Foundation Cesare Pavese in Santo Stefano Belbo, Italy. I proposed a solo show of Swiss artist Nina Haab, who invested the space of the deconsecrated church of the Foundation with a large in situ installation, combining her recent photographic and sculptural series.

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Il molteplice ridiventa uno presents a series of three installations from her project Missive (2017-2019). Along with them, three of the large-format photo-collages from the series Out of R.D.: Stratigrafie (2018), as well as two new sculptures from her latest project Vue sur Jersey (2019-2020).

 

In Haab's works, the multiple, that is to say the countless real and possible narratives, meet in a single space, become a single mass, like river tributaries that come together with the sea. Each part of the whole is simultaneously segment and unity; the whole of the exhibition space thus becomes a universe to be observed in its entirety in which we can linger to appreciate each part; each of them able to reveal to us the presence of an unprecedented, immense world curled up on itself, and in turn rich in new, unexpected combinations.

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The catalogue of the exhibition, with texts in Italian and English, is issued by VersoL'Arte and distributed by Feltrinelli.

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Nina Haab. Il molteplice ridiventa uno

with texts by Elisa Rusca, Pierluigi Vaccaneo, Anselmo Villata

VersoL'Arte, Roma, 2020

ISBN: 978-88-98280-41-4