From 25 September to 7 November 2021, the International Gallery of Modern Art Ca ‘Pesaro presents the solo exhibition of Margherita Morgantin, a Venetian visual artist based in Milan. Her new project is “VIP = Violation of the Pauli exclusion principle“, produced by Xing and winner of the eighth edition of the Italian Council.
VIP is a research path that starts from the observation of subnuclear and astroparticle physics images in relation to artistic imagination, practiced through personal sensitivity as a form of scientific data. The title borrows the name of one of the particle physics experiments in progress for years in the underground laboratories of the National Institute of Nuclear Physics under the Gran Sasso massif: VIP is the acronym that names the experimental search for ‘impossible atoms’, whose appearance would represent a violation of the Pauli exclusion principle, one of the main cornerstones of modern physics and our understanding of the universe and matter.
In VIP = Violation of the Pauli exclusion principle the artist’s body and experience are part of the scientific tools used for field research. The Gran Sasso mountain chain is the physical and symbolic center of the investigation of Margherita Morgantin thanks to its exceptional double perspective. VIP takes place UNDER THE MOUNTAIN, in the largest underground laboratory in the world devoted to the detection of rare phenomena and physical events that should not take place, thanks to the ‘cosmic silence’ guaranteed by a massive layer of rocks that separates these laboratories from the atmosphere as a natural coverage; and ABOVE THE MOUNTAIN, on the plateaus of the Gran Sasso national park in the Abruzzo region, in an exceptional environmental area that is important for its high altitude biodiversity.
Website: www.capesaro.visitmuve.it
Location: Ca’ Pesaro Museum, Venice
