Interim is an installation, an exhibition, an event. by collective Farmers of Future
Monk, Roma 02/03/2025
Monk, Roma 02/03/2025
A semi-empty space with an old Panda inside, covered and filled with plants, moss, mold, holy cards, and rosaries.
A sound installation that connects the plants, the Panda, and the audience, creating an interdependent ecosystem of subject-objects.
Concept:
CJ 627 GC is the protagonist of Interim, the new installation by Farmers of Future. A white Fiat Panda sits at the center of a space that challenges traditional boundaries between viewer and artist, subject and object, silence and noise. By emphasizing the interaction and tension between these poles, it invites reflection on the interdependencies that shape the very fabric of perception.
In the 1960s, Fiat marked a crucial moment when Italian culture fully entered the global economic market, supported by the reputation of the "Made in Italy" brand. Small and accessible, the compact car quickly became a cultural icon, embodying the Italian spirit of affordability and reflecting a sense of inclusivity and modern comfort. Small Fiats symbolized for the masses the possibility of accessing an increasingly fast-paced world, embracing the new cultural paradigms of individualism and mass consumerism.
Specifically, the Fiat Panda of the 1980s represents a bridge between the years of Italy's first modernization and the presentâa car that even new generations have come to know.
Forty-four years after its launch, the dream the automobile once represented has shattered, shifting from a symbol of technological progress to a nostalgic memory of a bygone era. With the tightening of emissions regulations and urban restrictions on older models, objects like CJ 627 GC now represent an outdated vision of modernity.
Farmers of Future (FOF) have filled the car with a mix of living organisms and symbols tied to Catholic culture: an encounter where past, present, and future intertwine into a single hybrid rather than remaining separate temporalities. The mosses, molds, plants, rosaries, and holy cards that crowd the car's interior and exterior become a metaphor that deconstructs capitalist ideologiesâwhich view the world in binary termsâand reimagines the automobile in a new and radical form: a queer entity, a polysemantic hybrid.
Surrounding the car, an interactive sound installation creates an ecosystem that invites the audience to coexist in a performative happening where the Panda, the public, artists, and curators transform into a horizontal gathering of living, sonic, and performative forms.
The car itselfâan industrial object and artistic subjectâbecomes the core of a microcosm where the clear separation between human and non-human disappears. The object-subjects present become fundamental elements of a dynamic framework of relationships, constantly shifting roles and meanings. Interim represents, on a smaller scale, the idea of a society that does not exist as a fixed entity but as a sophisticated matrix, constantly reshaped by new connections and interactions.
CJ 627 GC, hybridized with vital and decaying plant elements, ultimately represents an exercise in "response-ability": the capacity, as human beings, to respond to the present by exploring ways and gestures that empower all to become agents of change.
The new creative proposal by Farmers of Future thus emerges as a reflection on the economic, social, and cultural mechanisms of our country, and the necessityâthrough the "Panda symbol"âto resist behaviors that confine individuals, entities, temporalities, or objects into stereotyped movements and imposed actions, in order to initiate new paths of coexistence and new value systems.