{"id":1109,"date":"2026-01-07T09:18:52","date_gmt":"2026-01-07T09:18:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/complexhibit.eu\/?p=1109"},"modified":"2026-01-07T09:18:52","modified_gmt":"2026-01-07T09:18:52","slug":"maria-serena-matarrese-en-complexhibit-sept-dic-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/complexhibit.eu\/en\/maria-serena-matarrese-en-complexhibit-sept-dic-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Maria Serena Matarrese in Complexhibit (Sept.-Dec. 2025)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div  class='flex_column av-av_one_full-4453fbc7e8da734fe9d5824da1c72891 av_one_full  avia-builder-el-0  el_before_av_hr  avia-builder-el-first  first flex_column_div'     ><style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-mk3svib9-58fc988f88b3e6de8c669ae3506709ed\">\n#top .av-special-heading.av-mk3svib9-58fc988f88b3e6de8c669ae3506709ed{\npadding-bottom:10px;\n}\nbody .av-special-heading.av-mk3svib9-58fc988f88b3e6de8c669ae3506709ed .av-special-heading-tag 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itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/BlogPosting\" itemprop=\"blogPost\" ><div class='avia_textblock'  itemprop=\"text\" ><p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Maria Serena Matarrese at the Faculty of Philosophy and Arts (UMA)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><\/p><\/div><div  class='flex_column av-av_one_half-0aea53b2b2b1640975a748149304d755 av_one_half  avia-builder-el-6  el_after_av_one_half  el_before_av_textblock  flex_column_div'     ><section  class='av_textblock_section av-mk3sxw0p-e851ebd6669dc607ab5ff9facdadb7fe'   itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/BlogPosting\" itemprop=\"blogPost\" ><div class='avia_textblock'  itemprop=\"text\" ><p>Between 2 September and 2 December 2025, we had the pleasure of hosting at iArtHis_Lab (Department of History of Art, University of M\u00e1laga) <strong>Maria Serena Matarrese<\/strong>, D. candidate at the <strong>National Doctorate in Heritage Science<\/strong> (Sapienza Universit\u00e0 di Roma \/ Universit\u00e0 Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan), on a research stay linked to the research lines of <strong>Complexhibit<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The stay was articulated, in the first place, as a process of <strong>immersion in the academic life of the Department<\/strong>, The programme is based on a regular meeting to discuss their doctoral project and, at the same time, <strong>identify areas of contact<\/strong> with our research: how to describe contemporary exhibition practices without reducing them to inventories of objects; how to formalise what happens \u201cbetween\u201d work, discourse, device and reception; and what it means to document the ephemeral when the ephemeral is precisely what is constitutive.<\/p>\n<p>One of the contributions most directly aligned with Complexhibit was the development of a <strong>case-oriented methodology<\/strong> to describe contemporary exhibitions by means of ontology <strong>OntoExhibit<\/strong>, with a specific focus on <strong><em>Live In Your Head: When Attitudes Become Form<\/em><\/strong> (Kunsthalle Bern, 1969), curated by <strong>Harald Szeemann<\/strong>. The work, which is still in progress, is focusing on <strong>modelling curatorial concepts, artistic processes and documentary traces<\/strong> within a semantic web framework: not only \u201cwhat was shown\u201d, but also \"what was shown\". <strong>how it was articulated<\/strong>, What tensions it activated and what traces it left in texts, archives and memories.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><\/div><section  class='av_textblock_section av-mk3t1k8z-b07ab711ed78319d20729fd68e5b600a'   itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/BlogPosting\" itemprop=\"blogPost\" ><div class='avia_textblock'  itemprop=\"text\" ><p>Another decisive front was the discussion and refinement of the <strong>ontological strategies<\/strong> to represent <strong>procedural and immaterial works<\/strong>, The project is based on three issues that cut across the core of the project:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>temporality<\/strong> (what counts as an event, duration or iteration),<\/li>\n<li><strong>documentation of creative and curatorial processes<\/strong> (not as a supplement, but as part of the phenomenon),<\/li>\n<li>y <strong>relationship between exhibitions, theoretical texts and archival materials<\/strong> (as interdependent ecologies of meaning).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Finally, Maria Serena expanded on her comparative research on <strong>digital memory practices in museums<\/strong> The Spanish context - until then developed on the Italian and British cases - through the design and discussion of a <strong>semi-structured interview<\/strong> and the selection of cases such as <strong>Museo Carmen Thyssen M\u00e1laga, MUCAC, Museo Reina Sof\u00eda and Fundaci\u00f3n Juan March<\/strong>. This work opens up a particularly promising avenue for Complexhibit: connecting memory policies, archival strategies and institutional narratives with models capable of describing not only contents, but <strong>regimes of visibility and oblivion<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Beyond specific results, Maria Serena Matarrese's contribution can be summed up in something that we particularly value at Complexhibit: her ability to <strong>asking difficult questions without losing technical rigour<\/strong>, and to turn these questions into modelling decisions, debatable categories and testable prototypes.<\/p>\n<p>We are deeply grateful for their commitment, their intellectual maturity and their collaborative generosity, and we are pleased that this stay has consolidated a common ground from which to continue working: <strong>thinking of the exhibition as a complex object<\/strong>, The project, made up of relations, temporalities, mediations and traces - and to provide us with the tools to describe it without impoverishing it.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":1116,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-noticias","category-visitas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/complexhibit.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1109","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/complexhibit.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/complexhibit.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/complexhibit.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/complexhibit.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1109"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/complexhibit.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1109\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1118,"href":"https:\/\/complexhibit.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1109\/revisions\/1118"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/complexhibit.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/complexhibit.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/complexhibit.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/complexhibit.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}