In today's multi-ethnic perspective, every movement produces mixture, every artist can manipulate his or her genetic make-up, change homeland and invent his or her own, affect meaning and imagery, aim to rework and combine different iconographies and national identities. In this context, artists from different backgrounds and nationalities recount the history, meaning, evils and distortions of an ancient symbol. A cross-section of the arts scene that welcomes works by artists from the international and Italian scene.

The leitmotif of the Motion of a Nation project is not an archive of images, but a reckless journey through this wide and varied panorama, an introspective reading that aspires to offer a key to recreating a primordial condition, where one still has the possibility of proposing new visions. The exhibition venue itself is not a random choice; it is a private space, not linked to the art market, a place where thoughts are recounted and ideas are collected, as in the case of some galleries that

operate as cultural spaces expressing a desire to resist, demonstrating that they are proactive spaces, capable of adapting aesthetic intervention to the current situation. 

The intent is eminently cultural, with an itinerary dedicated to that symbol of the iconographic tradition that is precisely at the centre of strong and heated debate these days. An exhibition that documents a singular journey through not only one of the symbols of the iconographic tradition, but also the nation, the notion of nation, which are also belonging, but also meaningless rags. A symbol of recognition, but also sometimes of emptiness. Nations as such are a limit to freedom, a constraint, a prison, a

limit, a boundary, a justification, a pretext for generating political, economic conflicts, endless wars. 

‘Motion of a Nation’ is a collection of visual emblems that base their survival above all in the value of symbols that want to tell a story, its meanings, its distortions, with different techniques and materials, from photography to drawing, from painting to video, interweaving high knowledge and pop languages, history and news, comics and poetry, in a dense web of references and quotations that goes so far, with surprising and often ironic daring, as to concede nothing to the borderline between

sentimental biography and sociological analysis, between literary memory and technological experimentation.

(Antonio Arévalo)