As part of the FDV Residency Program, Careof presents Exposed, a permanent research laboratory hosted within the residency’s spaces. Conceived and coordinated by artists Giuseppe Fanizza and Andrea Kunkl, the laboratory aims to activate reflections and different forms of representation of the transformations of Milan in view of the 2015 Universal Exposition.

On one hand, EXPO2015 represents a potential for innovation for the city and a cultural and social added value for the hosting community; on the other hand, it entails an acceleration in the pace at which the city changes, profoundly affecting the space and the way it is perceived and experienced by its inhabitants.

Within this framework, Exposed intends to be a collective witness to the change, documenting through visual research and artistic practice the transformation of Milan as a city and community. Neighborhoods caught between evolution and gentrification, landscape between urbanization and cementification, the dialectic between political and economic arrangements and community demands, are the key themes the project engages with.

Exposed’s goal is the creation of a digital archive – online from June 25 at <www.exposedproject.net> – which collects and makes available for consultation photographic and video works, documentation, textual interventions, actions in public space, installations, urban mappings, and research characterized by the mixing of different media and professional skills.

With the contribution of the Comune di Milano and Fondazione Cariplo.