ill at ease, Piazza Tomasi di Lampedusa, Ninfa Labs, Dynamicart Museum, Fondazione ICA, Pirelli HangarBicocca, Milan, 2023
Itinerant happening with Ron Arad, Hermine Bourdin, Khaled El Mays, Diango Hernandez, Six N. Five co-curated with Luisa Ausenda

Launched on the occasion of the Salone del Mobile 2023’s Fuorisalone, “ill at ease” is the first edition of an itinerant happening involving some of the most renowned artists and designers on the international scene, that takes place in various squares and courtyards among the busiest of the Fuorisalone, joining the public instead of being reached by it and thus subverting the logic of one of the most decentralized events in the world.

Halfway between an extravagant living room and an art exhibition, “ill at ease” features design furniture and digital creations with which the public can interact within a new frame because it is site-specific to the squares and courtyards where it occurs. The happening is here understood as a scenic action without a predetermined matrix, which focuses not so much on the object as on the event, promoting the ephemeral and the changeable and freeing the public from the role of passive viewer.