The Space of a Metaphor: On Mediterraneanism in the Event-Institution

Focusing on the four editions of Manifesta that took place in Mediterranean cities, Chiara Cartuccia considers the curatorial risks of reducing the multitudinous space of the Mediterranean sea into a unified, functional metaphor. Probing into the ‘imaginative geography’ of the Euro-Mediterranean projected by Manifesta, the article calls for an event-institution capable of going beyond the metaphorical limits of curatorial fantasy, to set up a relation of care with its hosting territory.