From the exhibition catalogue:
“The exhibition Pointing Nemo merges at the heart of a season in which the spatial imagination has once again seized public discourse with an intensity that resembles neither twentieth-century science fiction nor the heroic modernism of the lunar conquest, but rather the contemporary grammar of capital: pitch, scalability, disruption, community, the promise of growth. From 6 February to 26 May 2026, across CUBO’s two Bologna venues, Porta Europa and Torre Unipol, IOCOSE’s solo exhibition intercepts this shift and turns it into an exhibitionary machine that seduces, entertains, and, above all, reveals. It does not uncover some hidden backstage truth; rather, it brings to the foreground what often remains implicit: space as a symbolic and economic asset, as a territory of colonial projection and, at the same time, as a narrative device that manufactures consent even before it produces infrastructure.”
Federica Patti, curator
“The exhibition Pointing Nemo gathers work of the past decade by the cross-European collective IOCOSE, founded in 2006 in Bologna by artists Matteo Cremonesi, Filippo Cuttica, Davide Prati, and Paolo Ruffino. During the course of its twenty-year career, IOCOSE has produced work that examines how the promise of new technologies is too often undermined by greed and profit-making. In particular, the work in Pointing Nemo focuses on the foreclosure of hope for the great majority of humans’ and non-humans’ in an era of ecocidal capitalism. As civically-orchestrated planning about the contour of the future is supplanted by billionaire-driven follies, IOCOSE’s work is a much-needed intervention for imagining alternatives to the privatisation of resources on Earth and in outer space.”
Eva Díaz, Professor of Contemporary Art History at Pratt Institute, New York, and author of After Spaceship Earth: Art, Techno-utopia, and Other Science Fictions (Yale University Press)
Credits:
Curated by Federica Patti
Produced by DAS Dialoghi Artistici Sperimentali
Photographic documentation by Vincenzo Ruocco
Photo by: Vincenzo Ruocco
