09/12/2021
Post Scriptum
Exhibition design by Nicola Miulli. Curated by Antonio Caruso
Scientific direction by Martina Cavallarin
Management direction by Palma Nicolardi
Ferrovie Appulo Lucane
Matera Central Station
28/06/21 - 28/09/21
On the occasion of the Foreign Affairs Ministers’ summit of the G20 People Planet Prosperity promoted by the Italian Republic, Ferrovie Appulo Lucane proposes Post Scriptum.
Post Scriptum is a site-specific intervention of exhibition design created by Nicola Miulli.
Miulli focuses on the meaning of Post Scriptum (P.S.), elaborating a visual theme to communicate the conversation between ethic and aesthetic of intentions. It takes place in Matera Central Station, redesigned by Stefano Boeri Architetti in 2018.
The term _Post Scriptum_ _(P.S.)_ is used as the premise to the ending note of a text. _P.S._ is a communication code extraneous from the contents directly conveyed by the spoken language, representing the need to specify what can be left out, yet inevitable consequences of what is written. They represent a call to attention for the politic of treaties, announcements, slogans: take stock! The consequences taking place today are real and do not wait for political charts. They are not subject to any agreement. What is overlooked in the official record, punctuates our reality through words that this intervention induces us to go through.
A selection of common and topical words is placed in the Station. Nicola Miulli interprets them in archigraphies with different styles, lettering and colours for a site-specific intervention which transports the passers-by into an immersive dimension. Everyone is required to find their relationship with the words. The distance between semantics and interlocutors is translated from a verbal to a spatial language, which is manifested by the movement of different meaning-recipients in the spaces inhabited by the daily transit of connecting trains.