It is based on the issue of the mediating role of contemporary art between territory, identity and people. The curator in residence is the italian MICHELA ALESSANDRINI (1987, Rome). She graduated in Contemporary History of Art at Sapienza University of Rome in 2011 and, since 2008, started a collaboration with artists, contemporary art institutions and non-profit organizations in her own country a
nd in Europe, for example in France and Czech Republic. She currently writes for important online art reviews and is interested in entering in touch with the ever changing dynamics of the art world, moving continuously from place to place to discover the invisible link between art and territory/ies. This research is, actually, the main focus and aim of her residency as curator in Guest Space 2012 at Labor: a path that started from the anthropological and social studies for her thesis on Mac/Val (Musée d’art contemporain du Val de Marne in Vitry-sur-Seine) and leads to wonder about people and nations, métissage, man and men, cultural involvement and contaminations, identity and identities. In order to better investigate this connections through the art mediation, she involved an hungarian artist in this researches, Zsuzsi Flohr. ZSUZSI FLOHR (Budapest, 1981) graduated at Krea School of Contemporary Art in 2001 and at Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design, Faculty of visual communication in 2006; she has worked on several art projects and exhibitions and, from 2012, she is a member of FFS (Studio of Young Photographers Hungary); she combines traditional photography with the language of contemporary art in a way that conveys the power of the photo/video but with the lyricism and sensitivity of fine art, with the aim of initiating a social dialogue on current socio-political and individual problems.
