INVERNOMUTO - Black Med

OGR Cult | Binario 2

Wednesday, Dec. 14 to Sunday, Dec. 18

OPENING | Wednesday, Dec. 14 to Sunday, Dec. 18
Live DJ set

Thursday - Friday | from 6 to 10 p.m.
Saturday - Sunday | 10 a.m. to 8 p.m.

Free entrance

A project by OGR Torino on the occasion of The European Pavillion

As part of The European Pavilion, from Wednesday, Dec. 14 to Sunday, Dec. 18, OGR Torino will host the eighth chapter of Black Med, a work by the artistic duo Invernomuto.

Black Med is the investigation and documentation project the artists have been pursuing since 2018: an archive, in constant evolution, of music and sound objects from the Mediterranean, whose main output is accessible online at blackmed.invernomuto.info. Within the archive, different songs, stories, and paths, are arranged in an uninterrupted and avowedly non-geographical selection.

Between different contexts and geographies, Invernomuto joins various fragments of a mosaic outlining a possible narrative of European identity, articulated and multifaceted, as opposed to xenophobic simplifications.

It is an approach that fits well within the reflections triggered by The European Pavilion and launched in November 2022 at OGR Turin with Ludovica Carbotta’s exhibition I come from outside of myself, which investigates the form and values that an eventual European Pavilion in an international event could take on and represent, starting from the observation of the mutability of European borders.

The European Pavilion is the artistic program born from the will of The European Cultural Foundation, together with Fondazione Camargo, Fondazione Kultura Nova, and with the support of Fondazione CRT - to question together with numerous European institutions the lack of a European Pavilion in major international events.

Black Med’s chapter VIII at Binario 2 of OGR Torino is conceived as an offline reconfiguration of the archive that is activated through a performative listening session supported by projected slides containing theoretical texts and backgrounds referring to the music, grouped by elegiac themes. A sound journey that crosses different borderlands, thwarting narratives based on the immobility of European borders: landlines, oceans, and borders armed by European Union states are plowed through to show the incoherence of an idea of Europe that shuns its transnational and migratory roots.

INVERNOMUTO
Invernomuto is the name of the artistic personality created in 2003 by Simone Bertuzzi (Piacenza, 1983) and Simone Trabucchi (Piacenza, 1982) author of a series of research projects structured in time and space, from which cycles of interconnected works are derived. On a common theoretical basis, Invernomuto tends to think in an open and rhizomatic way, developing different outputs that reshape into moving images, sounds, performative actions, and editorial projects, within the framework of a practice defined by the use - as widespread as it is precise - of different media. Reality is observed according to documentary principles and interests, but with the aim of creating an imaginative and almost abstract representation that offers ground for reflection and critical questioning.
Moving through different practices, Invernomuto investigates subcultural universes in which vernacular language is one of the ways to approach and appreciate oral cultures and contemporary mythologies, which are observed with a gaze that aspires to be crossed and regenerated by them. The avowed inauthenticity of some of the materials employed plays a key role in this process, which emphasizes not only the real but also the fictitious and distorted nature of the realities that Invernomuto explores. Both artists have also developed individual lines of research, with the music projects Palm Wine and STILL.