For its third season, from Oct. 3, 2023 to June 30, 2024 FOROF - a space dedicated to the dialogue between contemporary art and archaeology founded by Giovanna Caruso Fendi - presents BALTIC ADVENTURE, a site-specific project by Lithuanian artist Augustas Serapinas (Vilnius - Lithuania, 1990) that recreates the landscape of an alarming future, the result of the devastating effects of global warming.
An exhibition itinerary made up of evocations and connections, curated by Ilaria Gianni, intended to be a warning to the problem of climate instability and a call to action in favor of the environment.
In the archaeological spaces of FOROF Serapinas recontextualizes his work Mudmen, in which snowman-like figures - made, however, from straw and mud - inhabit the ancient Roman Forum as presences that warn us about a dystopian future, more likely than we imagine.
The fifth episode is an unprecedented performance by Gaia Fugazza, in collaboration with Isabelle Woodhouse, reflecting on how climate and its memories are ultimately part of the narrative of an environment shared with a community to which one belongs, even after many years and with different life experiences
Festa con Piccola Tragedia, presented for the first time in Rome by the artist in residence at the Instituto Svizzero, represents a moment of reflection on the idea of "party" understood as a transitory event where a community gathers ritually, exchanging information, desires, emotions, through gestures and sounds.
In the previous episodes: following a workshop with Augustas Serapinas and a concert with the Vilnius University Folk Ensemble "Ratilio", for the Third Episode FOROF presents Dopo il diluvio, a performance by the theater company Muta Imago designed in dialogue with the site specific and FOROF archaeological spaces.
The l Second Episode features a performance of Sutartinė, ancient Lithuanian traditional songs since 2010 inscribed on UNESCO´s intangible cultural heritage list.
FOROF presents a limited series of Mudballs Editions created by Augustas Serapinas, the featured artist in the now ongoing exhibition "BALTIC ADVENTURE" curated by Ilaria Gianni.