curated by Antonio Grulli
 

In her project for the Albanian Pavilion Iva Lulashi evokes the “glass of water theory”. This theory, dating back to the Russian pre-revolutionary period and linked to the feminist thinker Alexandra Kollontai (1872 - 1952), is based on the idea of a sexual revolution in which impulses are perceived as a simple necessity to be satisfied with the same carefreeness with which you drink a glass of water; it had a great influence on the artistic circles of those years but was immediately opposed by the revolutionary political apparatus.

Water is the basic condition of life, just like love, and both life and love move in a continuous state of fragility. Love, sex and desire can give meaning or ruin our lives, and are the only great reality that is eternally revolutionary, telluric by its constitution, on which power, be it political, economic or ideological, is unable to firmly impose its own control.

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