Le Gusa Baje
The title draws from the secret code once used by the hemp workers od Crissolo, a village at the foot of Monviso. The exhibition began in two ground floor rooms and continued upward through the building’s old fire station tower, now a private loft. This vertical, meandering path was conceived to disorient, echoing the show’s exploration of instinct, ambiguity, and the invisible threads that connect the artists’s work.
Photography by Alexia Colombo
“Le Gusa Baje evokes an ancient sound, a forgotten dialect, the secret code of the hemp workers from Crissolo, a village nestled at the foot of Monviso. In this collective exhibition, eleven artists engage in a silent dialogue, recognizing one another through an intangible reflection: the nocturnal shimmer in the eyes of the Gusa, the wolf. Here, no manifesto or single vision prevails; the thread linking these artists is subterranean. Like a silent, almost instinctual call, the works reveal themselves ambiguously, denying the ease of coherence.
Baje suggests a glimmer, perhaps intuition to pursue or a fleeting mirage, a lapse where a word fails its conscious intent. The exhibition journey began on the ground floor, then proceeds in the opposite direction, toward a tower that rises to the third floor, once the heart of Porta Palazzo's old fire station, now a private loft, an exclusive enclave.
This wandering path was designed to evoke a sense of disorientation in the visitor.”