Thomas Hirschhorn features in 'La morsure des termitesi'

'Il morso delle termiti' undertakes a re-reading of art history through the lens of graffiti. It poses graffiti as an experience, attitude and mode of nonconformity, rather than an aesthetic. 

The title is taken from a passage in Italo Calvino’s 'Invisible Cities', 1972. In an essay published in 1962, Manny Farber contrasts termite artists with white elephant artists. Termite artists express themselves in practices that are more difficult to grasp and manipulate. 'Termite-style art, tapeworm, moss or fungus, has the peculiarity of progressing by attacking its own constraints, usually to leave in its wake only signs of devouring, industrious, and disordered activity.' The exhibition is structured lika an invisible city: 'streets bristling with signs that come out of the walls,' where 'the eye does not see things but figures of things that signify other things.'

Featured artists include Richard Hambleton, Thomas Hirschhorn, Jenny Holzer, Sol LeWitt, Leomi Sadler and Marion Widcoq, among others.