xxx

Aa.vv

12x19 cm
136 pages
Soft cover
Art direction by Tommaso Parrillo
Design by Ilaria Miotto
Published in January 2026
ISBN 979-12-80177-62-9
Witty #107

20€
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Authors:
Valentina Avanzini, Sandra Cane and Auro Saita, Gaia Ginevra Giorgi, Wissal Houbabi, Rac Montoro, Nuvola Ravera, Davide Sgambaro and Viola Mancini, Transhumanza, and Two Hours Ago I Fell in Love.

Curated by:
Stefano Cavaliero, Martina Cazzola, Alberto Dapporto, Francesca De Chiara, Gianmichele De Sario, Potito Forte, Rebecca Morando, Aurora Piedigrossi, Francesca Schinzani, Olivia Teglia

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xxx began as a project that aims to explore affectivity as a force capable of generating contact, alteration and proximity. Ideally, the project would like to resemble an affective, imaginative and necessarily non-exhaustive cartography, similar to the Carte de Tendre, published as an accompaniment to Madeleine de Scudéry's novel Clélie, histoire romaine (1654). Looking at the map, we discover that the names of cities, rivers and seas have been replaced by those of emotions, moods and feelings.
Thus, in order to create xxx and a stratification of affections, artists and authors whose research could embody, problematise or expand the curators' questions were involved. The invitation to contributors, in the form of a letter, did not respond to a desire to codify affections as a category of artistic and philosophical research, but to the methodological need to introduce embodied points of view, sensory experiences and forms of imagination into the process.

xxx is the final project of the CAMPO25 curatorial practices course organised by the Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, and is the editorial outcome of a dialogue on the theme of affectivity between the ten curators of CAMPO25 and the practices of the artists.