Author Description

The exhibition "To the Son of Man Who Ate the Scroll" is presented in the exhibition spaces of the Podium, the Cisterna and the Sud gallery. The project was conceived and designed by Goshka Macuga, whose artistic practice is often referred to as taking on the roles of an artist, curator, collector, researcher and exhibition designer. Macuga works across a variety of media including sculpture, installation, photography, architecture and design. "To the Son of Man Who Ate the Scroll", developed by the artist for Fondazione Prada's spaces, brings together reflections on seminal issues such as time, beginnings and endings, collapse and renewal. Observing humanity's concern with the conclusion of mankind, Macuga poses a fundamental question: how important is it to address the question of "the end" in the context of contemporary art practice? Macuga's exhibition is the culmination of a lengthy period of in-depth research attempting to formulate a methodological categorization of material and information around such topics. The artist looked at the art of rhetoric and artificial memory as intricately linked tools for the organization and advancement of knowledge.--Fondazione Prada website.