Views of catastrophe are both realistic and visionary. Thus the best way to move through the space of “Coerenza in coerenza” (Coherence within coherence) was as if one were looking at the show from the future, from an as yet unknown time—as if one had been born after the apocalypse. This was like a series of ruins to be deciphered, a place of forgotten rituals which slowly revealed themselves through the residual presence of arte povera. From this perspective the whole show could be seen as a gigantic allegory, in part because of the architectural context in which it unfolded—the Mole Antonelliana,