In recent years the view from above, a once exceptional point of view reserved to people in power and inhuman agents like birds, angels and gods, has become widespread and accessible. In 2011, artist and writer Hito Steyerl introduced the concept of ‘vertical perspective’ to address the “departure of a stable paradigm of orientation”, and to describe what can be seen, to all effects, as the emergence of a new scopic regime.

By replacing the stable horizon and the role played by linear p… more

Expanded Without is part of Expanded, a three-chapter exhibition curated by Marcella Beccaria and Elena Volpato conceived with the Fondazione per l’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea CRT to enhance its Collection on loan to Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea and GAM – Galleria Civica d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Torino.

At OGR Turin, the exhibition project focuses on works in which the image is produced without resorting to the camera or other means of recording reality. The w… more