11. 11. 11. 1 October 24, 8 pm
        12. In Italian with English subtitles
        13. Venue: Pogo Bar
        14. Registration via pogobar@kw-berlin.de

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Monowe (2024) tells the story of a town inhabited by one person. It is an imaginary city, an urban model created for a single individual. The inhabited spaces are buildings that preserve specific functions: the house, the museum, the watchtower, the courthouse, but also abstract places, metaphors for parts of the body in which the solo inhabitant might confronts his own interiority.

In its courthouse, a trial is underway in which the lone citizen is the defendant, judge, prosecutor, lawyer, witness and victim. As the trial unfolds, their memories form different stages of the town; its catastrophic past, and the possibility of its future survival.

Monowe represents the state of isolation of the contemporary individual, the result of external dynamics and strategies of self-protection. The unfolding of the court proceedings, formulated as the inhabitant remembers hearing or seeing them, will take us through the different stages of its existence within the town of Monowe.

In her practice, Ludovica Carbotta focuses on the physical exploration of the urban space and how individuals establish connections with the environment they inhabit. In recent works, by combining installations, texts and performances, she is researching on fictional site-specificity, a form of site-oriented practice that considers imaginary places or embodies real places with fictional contexts, recovering the role of imagination as a value to construct our knowledge.

The screening of Monowe is followed by a Q&A performance between Ludovica Carbotta and KW Associate Curator Sofie Krogh Christensen.

Ludovica Carbotta (born 1982 in Torino) lives and works in Barcelona (ES). She graduated in painting from the Accademia Albertina di Belle Arti in Turin in 2005, and obtained her MA in Fine Art from Goldsmiths in London in 2015. She has exhibited works at MAMbo, Bologna, the 58th Venice Biennial, MAXXI Museum, Rome; Kunstlerhaus Museum, Graz; Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin; Hangar Bicocca, Milan; Dublin Contemporary; Matadero, Madrid; Swiss Institute, Rome; Les Instants Chavirés, Paris; amongst others. Carbotta is the recipient of the 5th Ariane de Rothschild Prize.

In 2016 in Bologna, as part of ON, she launched Monowe, her project about an imaginary city for a single inhabitant, as a public installation on the banks of the Parco del Cavaticcio, to be followed by further instalments. In the same year she received a special mention at the MAXXI Prize (Museo MAXXI, Rome), won the Gallarate Prize (MA*GA, Gallarate). Between 2017 and 2018 she was a fellow at the Jan Van Eyck Academy, Maastricht. In 2018 she was awarded the New York Prize. Monowe was previously shown at MAMbo Bologna, de Appel Amsterdam, and Gasworks London.