Transformers

Our world is in transformation, it is a combination of analogue and virtual reality that is redrawing our ways of living.
The notion of the transformer is visible everywhere,representing the human-machine and redefining humanity with technology. Faced with this fundamental change, revolutionary attempts are being carried out by numerous creators to respond to the challenge, both through resi stance and through innovation.

MAXXI hosts an exhibition where visitors can observe and participate in the making of a new reality through sharing the experiences of four “transformers”, coming from different parts of the world.
The Korean Choi Jeong-Hwa, inspired by folk wisdom and popular aesthetics, transforms “art and architectural installations” into provocative manifestations for “good values” and a “happy life”.
 The Mexican Pedro Reyes encourages social interactions to move in new directions with realism and peace as a way to resist violence and war.
In Europe, the culture of collaboration known as DIY (Do-It-Yourself) is adopted by the Italian Martino Gamper, who reinterprets the idea of making through recycling and reinventing.
 The French-Portuguese Didier Faustino challenges our conventional spatial consciousness and behaviour by designing devices that force us to confront our own physical and mental limits in a new social reality that is driven by tensions between social urgency and claims to freedom.