JUNGLEa contemporary art festival now in its fifth edition, this year questions itself around the concept of RADICAL and its drifts of meaning, calling artists and researchers to express themselves Carmine market in Lucca.
An exhibition project with many voices, involving the artists Bertrand Dezoteux, David Lucchesi, David Paolinetti, Josse Renda, Gözde Mimiko Türkkan, Tatiana Villani and the Five Radio Stations project (with Keren Cytter, Benedikt H. Hermannsson, Hylozoic/Desires, Daniel John Jones and Seb Emina, Emeka Ogboh), each with their own expressive language, on the theme proposed by the curator Irene Panzani.
Rooted and radical derive from root, yet they refer to two distant meanings.
Rooted it recalls belonging to a land, to a fixed place, to an identity, to something stable and solid. Radical has as its synonyms innovator, liberal, libertarian, progressive, it refers to those who tackle problems at their root.
Finding a balance today between attachment to one’s land and one’s traditions, and the desire to migrate, to break with one’s past to build a future elsewhere is increasingly strong everywhere in the world. Added to the migratory flows of people fleeing conditions of poverty and war are expats, remote workers and those who wanted to break with their routine.… read the rest of the article”
Lucca continues to be among the provinces with the highest rate of emigrants in Tuscany, second to Florence, and it is precisely here that JUNGLE Radical wants to question issues ranging from migration to the digital divide, from artisanal practices to the artistic ones of the present.
To do this, he chose, not surprisingly, the Carmine market, whose name derives from Carmelo, which means vineyard, orchard, or extensive garden. From here the Discalced Carmelites take their name, who had their home in the center of Lucca, in the monastery which in the 19th century was transformed into a city market. Semantic continuity is the common thread between the ancient inhabitants of this building and the future merchants, both turned to the land, to the gifts of nature, to the cultivation of a garden, of a space made of exchange and sharing, of roots and prayers.
From spiritual research to the cultural effervescence of a market, today the Carmine, also managed by the 4223 company, itself made up of expats from Lucca until recently, who today have decided to return to their land to give life to an innovative project, there takes us back to this story and in continuity with it looks at art as an exploration of human complexity, a reflection of both the relationship with the goods of the earth typical of a fruit and vegetable merchant, and with the search for meaning that characterizes Carmelite spirituality.
Between reinterpretation of roots and a past cultural identity, struggle with the land and for the land, imagination that sublimates reality, the exhibition opens up to the trade of thoughts that GIUNGLA has been promoting since 2020.
For this fifth edition, the festival develops initially as an exhibition at the Carmine market in Lucca, from 3 to 5 May, and then continuing from 14 to 17 November 2024 with meetings and workshops like in a real gym.
A project by SOFA in collaboration with the Carmine market.
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