Goshka Macuga
Fondazione Prada
In Goshka Macuga’s cosmological exhibition “To the Son of Man Who Ate the Scroll,” the artist stages a creation myth of her own invention, presenting her work alongside a wide-ranging selection of that of her artistic predecessors. Yet this story is ambiguous at first. Visible from the windows of the Fondazione Prada’s ground-floor exhibition space is a man carrying out small, mechanical gestures. He is seated on a large, low pedestal at the site where Virgilio Sieni’s Atlante del gesto (Atlas of Gesture), 2015, was recently performed, and where examples of classical sculpture and their copies