EUR 42 | 24 or Controversial Epiphanies

The EUR district was conceived in 1938 as the site of the World's Fair that was to have been held in 1942...the E42.... to celebrate the twentieth anniversary of Mussolini and his fascist militia's march on the capital.

Although several of these emblematic buildings, such as the Palazzo della Civilizzazione Italiana, had already risen from the ground in the early 1940s, EUR was built after the war, in the 1950s, and developed in the 1960s until today, becoming not only an urban symbol, but also a residential and commercial location.

Carla Cacianti measures herself against this architectural landscape, continuing a research project that began with the exhibition Blessures in 2015, followed in 2018 by Mutations and by Identités changeantes in 2019.

Giving back to the image a presence of thing, reinventing a perceptible, experimental spatiality that encompasses the entire scene of the work and puts us back in touch with our situation in the universe

Stefano Gallo