A Moth to a Flame

2020

SCAD Museum of Art, Savannah, USA

curated by Humberto Moro
A Moth to a Flame explores the idea launched by Filippo Marinetti in the Manifesto of Futurism: "movement destroys the materiality of bodies."

The exhibition refers to two other works that present different takes on materiality, movement, and the body: the novel ‘A Moth to a Flame’ by Swedish author Stig Dagerman and Animal Locomotion, a work in the SCAD Permanent Collection by Eadweard Muybridge, a pioneering artist whose photographic studies of movement at the turn of the 19th century have become defining works.

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