Systems & Territories
Curated by Silvia Franceschini
Systems and Territories is a five-year research program exploring how regimes of governance shape territories.
The program centers on monographic and thematic exhibitions, emerging from long-term investigations and collaborations between artists, researchers and communities critically examining categories, structures and ideologies upholding global modernity. How does geopolitics intersect with themes like decolonization, gender, infrastructure and labor?
Artists foreground care and repair as essential lenses through which to uncover the hidden textures, rhythms, ecologies and atmospheres of the systems which sustain us. They engage with reparation not just as a theme but as a practice addressing inequalities, environmental toxicities, and fragmentations of ways of life. Their methods are rooted in stories of movement, acts of inheritance, and deep knowledge of lands and seas.
The exhibitions are accompanied by a series of publications and public programs, serving as platforms for interdisciplinary methodologies employing various media and exploring political imaginaries for the future.
About Silvia Franceschini
Silvia Franceschini is a curator, researcher, and writer. Currently, she holds the position of contemporary art curator at CIVA in Brussels, which will soon merge with Kanal Pompidou. Additionally, she collaborates with Cittadellarte Fondazione Pistoletto, where she is a faculty member of the Master in Design, Creativity, and Social Practices. Previously, Franceschini worked as a curator at Z33 in Belgium and as a freelance curator. Among her notable (co)curated projects are The School of Kyiv (Kyiv Biennial 2015), Global Tools 1973–1975 (SALT, Istanbul 2014), and The Way of Enthusiasts (V-A-C Foundation, 2012). Since 2009, she has been actively involved in organizing exhibitions in various prestigious institutions, including the Moscow Biennale for Young Art, Futura—Center for Contemporary Art in Prague, and the Centre Pompidou in Paris.
