41 S/CARTOGRAPHIES Very diverse elements come together in contemporary art and enter its field of action because, despite the reservations of the powersthat be, it is still a space of freedom. The actions that are proposed in art are generally conceived and performed quickly and are very visible, even if they are not likely to be seen by a very large audience. Essentially there is an enduring attitude of transformation that is characteristic of art. Certain concepts and themes have become fundamental for defining hybrid practices and a definition in which exceptions fit better than rules. Two of these concepts are “cartographies” and “identities”, freely used in recent times to try to define actions and ideas that are not always easy to pin down, employed in conjunction with very vast fields of thought and study. The last part of In Transit brings us to these fluid territories that are hard to grasp and undergoing a constant process of transformation, whose nature consists in the questioning and altering of rigid concepts and knowledge and also the certainty of an impossible redefinition without nuances. In the room at the end there are video projectors, sculptures, photographs, paintings and mixed works, made in different periods and adopting very varied approaches, which present territory and identity as key elements of modernity and its correlate in contemporaneity. The body understood as a place of events and changes, and territory as a logical extension of the human being and an area of direct action. Twenty-six works by sixteen artists seek to depict a panorama corresponding to this level of complexity.
In transit
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