“Slight Agitation” is an exhibition that unfolds in four successive chapters within the Cisterna, one of the Fondazione Prada’s buildings in Milan. International artists, Tobias Putrih (Slovenia, 1972), Pamela Rosenkranz (Switzerland, 1979), Laura Lima (Brazil, 1971) and Austrian collective, Gelitin, active since 1993, all participated in the project.
Tobias Putrih is realizing the first intervention included in the “Slight Agitation” series, showing until 22nd January 2017. Through his work, the environments within the Cisterna take on three different configurations, which all explore ideas of play, emancipation and politics: a theatre for ongoing brick construction, a tactile blind room and a sculpture that turns into a labyrinth.
Putrih’s intervention embodies an inhabited game. In its individual configurations, it evokes the innocence of childhood and the surprise caused by initial discoveries made through play, subsequently building a real scale autonomous world, linked to the imaginative aspect of children’s playful adventures. The artists explores the limits and possibilities of learning through play and invents a dynamic environment in constant evolution, which engages the audience, curators and the artist himself, implying a collaborative interaction between the subjects involved.
Putrih wants to use this “living” work to demonstrate the “crucial importance of collaboration and trust over competition between team members for achieving optimal results”.
Fondazione Prada: the first phase
of the “Slight Agitation” project
