Invited artists: MICHELA BALDI, PIERLUIGI CALIGNANO, CALIXTO RAMIREZ CORREA, ELEONORA CHURCH, FINELLI PETER, PAUL HUNTER, AURELIEN MAUPLOT, JUAN ZHAO

The exhibition entitled Aporie follows the one dedicated to Maurice Blanchot entitled Per sottrazione at the Spazio Brentano in Milan. Both of them have as a reference the thoughts after a book, which marked the contemporary art events. Aporie mainly refers to a Jacques Derrida’s book focused on the concept of Finis, an awaiting on the borders of the truth. Despite its importance both from a philosophical point of view and from the thinking about art, the book did not have been published from then. ZONE intention is not only to bring back the memory, but also to find a conjunction with Derrida’s thought, for this reason it is proposed as reference and subject in the exhibition.
The thought, Derrida says that according to the aporia, thought is a patient one, which does not know where to go, but at the same time, it knows it has to stop in a space where the absence of passage comes from the fraying of borders and the consequent lack of distinctions.
This pause in a porous border appears as a restless stand, such as the impossible staying in the same evident safety.
Aporias, beyond being the title of this exhibition, it is therefore a reflection on the concept of instability which pervades the whole of modern and contemporary art, and on the border concept and its double opening and closing opposition.
The exhibition has been conceived as a disjunction, a doubt almost insoluble by itself, an insurmountable obstacle that interrupts the reasoning, almost a conflict among languages.
The choice of artists, in fact, not only has the meaning of the doubt and conflict but also constantly refers to a possibility of dissemination. They have been invited accordingly to their different experiences and not because a common path.
In not being able to solve the aporia lies the inaccessible, nevertheless butterflies fly there among the treetops moving the thoughts of the men observing them.

The exhibition is accompanied by a text by Francesco Correggia.