THE SPECTRE OF MALTHUS

The Spectre of Malthus is a research project developed by Marzia Migliora, with the curatorship of Matteo Lucchetti, between 2018 and 2020, winner of Italian Council (VI Edition, 2019) – promotional activity of contemporary art in the world, by the General Directorate for Contemporary Creativity of the Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Activities.
The Spectre of Malthus is dedicated to the analysis of the relationship between the production of food, commodity and surplus value of the capitalist model and the exploitation of human, animal and mineral resources.
The project, which saw the participation of the Serlachius Museums of Gosta in Finland, the Van Abbemuseum of Eindhoven in the Netherlands and the National Gallery of San Marino, ended with an exhibition at the MA*GA Museum open between October 2020 and March 2021. At the end of the project, two works enter the Museum's collection: The Cage, an installation in which the specter of a caged horse prompts a reflection on the relationship between exploitation and wealth and The Spectre of Malthus, a virtual reality film for VR viewers shot in the salt quarries in Sicily in which the artist's drawings come to life in an immersive work that mixes drawing, collage and new technologies