Essen Zadime (02), 2018

There is a city in the world with a sole inhabitant: it’s called Monowe and it was designed and built by Ludovica Carbotta. Ever since her debut, the research of the Turinese artist has revolved around the exploration of urban space, frequently relating its physicality to the architecture of places so as to investigate the connections that are established between individuals. Her works, which include installations, sculptures, drawings and texts, have a strong performative dimension, often drawing inspiration from utopian and science-fiction literature. Operating on the edge between reality and imagination, Carbotta deploys a practice of ‘fictional site-specificity’ in which she lets the real space interact with that produced by the mind. [...]