Exiles and Exoduses
<p>Two movements, perhaps antithetical, affect space. Individuals exclude themselves, exit (<em>exilium</em>, <em>exsul</em>, <em>ex-solum</em>), come out of their own land, withdraw into another circumstance, depose power from within, shun <em>the power that withholds</em>. Exile can be an individual choice, but it can also be a constraint that involves, cumulatively, a large number. At the same time, peoples, animals, and plants are in exodus, moving, fleeing, migrating, changing the design and the sense of territory and geographies.</p> <p>Three figures take shape from these movements: the space of the journey and the traces of the crossing, the destination or just the place of arrival, and finally the image of the house, of the city, or of the abandoned ‘homeland’. These figures unite the two movements: certainly in exile the journey can be instantaneous; it can last as long as it takes to make a decision, to refuse, to write a text, to close a door. During the exodus, by contrast, the journey can prove to be the destination itself – in flight one may have to stop from necessity, by force, or by choice.</p> <p>Exiles and exoduses sediment themselves in history, sometimes finding space in the chronicle with novel accents. While the need for a gaze from the optimal distance is reiterated, the stones of other cities are silently laid, and the blending inheritance is renewed. The two movements perhaps tell us stories of new and repeating geneses.</p>
Editors: Sara Marini
Contributors: Sara Marini, Darío Álvarez Álvarez, Salvatore Aprea, Piotr Barbarewicz, Marina Caneve, Luca Capuano, Dario Cecchi, Ludovico Centis, Sara Cipolletti, Massimo Crispi, cyop&kaf, Marco D'Annuntiis, Miguel Ángel de la Iglesia Santamaría , Fernando J. Devoto, Stefano Graziani, Marius Grønning, Fulvio Lenzo, Federico Letizia, Silvia Lista, Serena Maffioletti, Francesco Migliaccio, Luca Molinari, Margherita Moscardini, Maroje Mrduljaš, Antoni Muntadas, Umberto Napolitano, Alessandro Orsini, Monica Pastore, Research Lab RAAR, Daria Ricchi, Renato Rizzi, Carlotta Sylos Calò, Gian Maria Tosatti, Miguel Angel Valdivia, Flavia Zelli
Assistant Editor: Giorgia Aquilar, Laura Arrighi, Francesco Bergamo, Giulia Bersani, Noemi Biasetton, Giovanni Carli, Egidio Cutillo, Giacomo De Caro, Stefano Eger, Alessia Franzese, Elisa Monaci, Arianna Mondin, Andrea Pastorello, Alberto Petracchin, Francesca Zanotto, Davide Zaupa, Luca Zilio
Translators: Just!Venice
Graphic Designer: bruno
Università Iuav di Venezia, Quodlibet
Part of: Vesper
ISBN: 978-88-229-1227-5