Photography - Marco Poloni, A Theory of Waves: Case Study #3, image #6

Wednesday 13 November 2024 at 20:00 will see the opening of the exhibition A Theory of Waves: Case Study #3 by Marco Poloni, a visual artist, filmmaker and photographer who has lived and worked in New York, Rome, Chicago, Paris and Geneva and currently lives in Locarno, where he has been directing the CISA, the International Academy of Audiovisual Sciences, since 2022.

Poloni’s work spans the still and moving image, text and installation. Poloni is particularly interested in the Mediterranean area and in the emergence of subjects invisible to apparatuses of social control.

The set of photographs titled A Theory of Waves: Case Study #3 is part of an ongoing study about the sea and its uncertain future. The set intersperses reproductions of Japanese woodblock prints, mathematical equations, photographs of waves, nuclear reactors, marine architectural objects and surfers.

The exhibition, curated by Michele Amadò, professor of Visual Communication at the Department of environment constructions and design SUPSI, is open until Wednesday 4 December 2024 and is supported by Canton Ticino.

Marco Poloni has received the Swiss Art Award three times, in 1997, 2000 and 2001, has had personal exhibitions at Kunsthalle Bern and at the Centre culturel Suisse in Paris and was one of the artists representing Switzerland at the Venice Biennale in 2005. Poloni has had personal and group exhibitions in Switzerland, Germany, France, Italy, Spain, United States, Austria, Denmark, Sweden, Turkey, Argentina and South Korea.

The exhibition, with free admission, can be visited (without reservation) until Wednesday 4 December 2024 on the ground floor of the SUPSI Campus in Mendrisio (Monday–Friday 9 a.m. – 7 p.m.).

The opening of A Theory of Waves: Case Study #3 is preceded by a lecture that is part of the Earth Emergency cycle promoted by the Department of environment constructions and design of SUPSI, now in its fourth edition. For the occasion, on Wednesday 13 November 2024 at 6:30 p.m., researcher Paola Imperatore will hold the lecture Giustizia climatica: una prospettiva per intrecciare riscaldamento globale, conflitti politici e giustizia sociale (Climate Justice: a perspective on interweaving global warming, political conflicts and social justice) in which she will explore climate justice not only in its theoretical dimension, but also in its practical application, focusing on specific examples.

During the exhibition period, a public event in the form of a discussion entitled Dialogue between science, culture and the environment with Marco Poloni, Cristian Scapozza (SUPSI professor in applied geomorphology) and Lucio Calcagno (SUPSI lecturer in mathematics), moderated by Raffaella Castagnola Rossini (director of the Canton Ticino’s Divisione della cultura e degli studi universitari) will be held on Wednesday 4 December 2024 from 5 to 6.30 p.m. In this way, SUPSI’s Department of environment constructions and design emphasises the link between its scientific institutes and culture, and continues to characterise the Campus as a model of an open museum. The meeting will be held in lecture room A2.11 at the SUPSI Campus in Mendrisio (2nd floor).

At the invitation of Raffaella Castagnola Rossini, during the public event Dialogue between science, culture and environment Marco Poloni, Cristian Scapozza and Lucio Calcagno suggested readings inspired by the exhibition A Theory of Waves: Case Study #3.