Pier Paolo Pasolini – Who am I

The scenog­ra­phy by chezweitz staged the fas­ci­nat­ing world of thought of the Ital­ian intel­lec­tu­al Pier Pao­lo Pasoli­ni as a mul­ti­me­dia land­scape. The exhi­bi­tion’s title was bor­rowed from the auto­bi­o­graph­i­cal poem of the same name, which pro­vid­ed the cura­to­r­i­al struc­ture of 24 themes from the artist’s life and work. Each of these themes was giv­en its own dis­play case, pre­sent­ing a wealth of doc­u­ments, pho­tographs, man­u­scripts, books, and sketch­es. The angu­lar sky­line of the dis­play cas­es reflect­ed Pasolin­i’s abrupt breaks and con­tra­dic­tions, evok­ing asso­ci­a­tions with the Roman periph­ery that so cap­ti­vat­ed him. The sceno­graph­ic land­scape was framed by a hori­zon on which Pasolin­i’s text title appeared in a cin­e­mat­ic rep­e­ti­tion, simul­ta­ne­ous­ly serv­ing as a back­drop for select­ed pho­tographs and draw­ings. As part of this hori­zon, the film instal­la­tion by Detlef Weitz and Dominique Müller, first cre­at­ed for the Pinakothek der Mod­erne in 2005, was shown. This instal­la­tion offers a spa­tial­ized analy­sis of Pasolin­i’s cin­e­mat­ic work.