Artists: Janis Avotins, Matthew Barney, Massimo Bartolini, Avner Ben Gal, Glenn Brown, Miguel Calderon, Maurizio Cattelan, Dinos e Jake Chapman, Roberto Cuoghi, Saul Fletcher, Anna Gaskell, Douglas Gordon, Gusmao& Paiva, Thomas Hirschhorn, Piotr Janas, Zoe Leonard, Margherita Manzelli, Eva Marisaldi, Nathaniel Mellors, Shirin Neshat, Kelly Nipper, Catherine Opie, Tony Oursler, Djordje Ozbolt, Anri Sala, Ferdinando Scianna, Andreas Slominski, Jakub Julian Ziolkowski.
The Sandretto Re Rebaudengo Foundation presents Fobofilia from 12 February to 12 April, an exhibition focusing on the image of fear and on the ways in which artists give form to one of the most distinctive and elusive feelings of our time. Fobofilia is the slightly perverse pleasure of being frightened, an impulse that appears increasingly frequent. Fear is the most widespread register in entertainment, but also in information, and consequently in the way reality is perceived. Art reflects this climate, offering multiple manifestations of it, ranging from the most intimate and psychological—of a subjectivity that is attacked or aggressive—to the more external and political one, of a society founded on violence and using terror as a weapon.
