Monowe (Tribunale)

Monowe is an imaginary city which, halfway between a ruin and an open building site, aims to replicate today’s solitary, individualistic urban lifestyle. It reflects the model of a utopian city, a way of reconsidering urban space, eventually even contradicting its own identity. A city that is no longer a settlement composed of many individuals, but a place inhabited by a single person. Ludovica Carbotta presents her series Monowe Il tribunale. The judicial body belongs to a city composed of a single inhabitant. In a world in which individualism takes precedence over the individual, how could a courtroom work? As the hypothetical citizen is at once defendant, defence, prosecution and jury, they perceive themselves in the third person, becoming a stranger to their own actions, just as Brecht’s actor ‘keeps themselves at a distance’. This image encapsulates the body from the second part of the exhibition: the decomposition of the parts is followed by a recomposition, exploring unprecedented new ways of existing in the world.

I am exploring in particular what I call “fictional site specificity”, a form of practice that considers imaginary places or absorbs real places into fictional contexts, restoring the role of the imagination as a value for building our knowledge, our awareness.
Ludovica Carbotta