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CIRCA 20:23

Matilde Cerruti Quara

Alfredo Jaar, Tonight No Poetry Will Serve

Tonight No Poetry Will Serve by Alfredo Jaar offers a powerful reflection on the limits of language and the role of creative expression in times of tragedy. A lament for today’s darkness and a call to find the words to confront these tragic hours, the bold new public intervention displays the arresting title of a poem by Adrienne Rich (1929–2012), a figure of inspiration for Jaar since the 1980s, who observed the limits of words in times of unthinkable violence: “no poetry can serve to mitigate such acts, they nullify language itself,” she wrote in 2011.

Throughout November 2023, Alfredo Jaar and CIRCA commissioned a series of poetic dialogues, curated by Vittoria de Franchis, from international writers, thinkers and speakers. Giving voice to those who find themselves silenced or without words, the poems hope to achieve Rich’s ambition that creative expression can reconcile conflicting realities.

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On 11/11 at 11:11AM In the East Village

 by Matilde Cerruti Quara

 


 

Matilde Cerruti Quara is an Italian & British multimedia artist, poet, performance-maker, actor and writer whose practice navigates and expands the infinite possibilities of language via experimental theatre, immersive installations and text-based art. Her work investigates identity, archetypes, systems of belief, natural forces, spirituality and rituals, sexuality and power dynamics. Matilde challenges where art should live as well as our relationship to it through references to private and personal spaces. Using her own handwriting as the font for the work, she documents an intimate process of care, labor, and patience through playful explorations of slogans, affirmations, form, and color.