Inner Voice Curatorial Text
Inner Voice is a curatorial project conceived in reference to Concerning the Spiritual in Art, in which Wassily Kandinsky describes a moment of rupture where, faced with the erosion of religious, scientific and moral foundations, attention shifts from the outer world toward interiority. He identifies a profound transformation in modes of perception, in which art becomes one of the first spaces where this spiritual mutation manifests itself.
“When religion, science and morality are shaken (the latter two by the powerful hand of Nietzsche) and when the outer supports threaten to fall, man turns his gaze away from the external and toward himself. Literature, music and art are the first and most sensitive spheres in which this spiritual revolution makes itself felt.”
Wassily Kandinsky, Concerning the Spiritual in Art, 1911
The exhibition brings together the practices of Justin Aversano, Alida Sun, Martin Lukas Ostachowski and Primavera De Filippi, revealing how their works give shape to singular value systems and inner worlds. It underscores the role of art as a space where a contemporary spirituality unfolds, anchored in a sensitive and situated relationship to the world.
Through photography, video, embroidery, sculpture and hybrid practices, the works on view invite us to rethink how we see and feel, in a world shaped by crises and the overabundance of images. They translate inner states such as emotions, intuitions and spiritual impulses, while echoing contemporary realities.
Image technologies, whether analog or digital, play a central role here: they no longer merely represent the real, but transform our relationship to the visible and the invisible. They open a sensitive space where new forms of spirituality unfold today.
Echoing Kandinsky’s thought, Inner Voice invites us to consider contemporary art as a space where this displacement toward interiority continues. Faced with the mutations of the current world, the works gathered here extend that intuition and affirm the persistence of a spiritual necessity, a renewed way of inhabiting the real.
