Song Dong. Soul Out

The MAO Museo d’Arte Orientale di Torino hosts Song Dong. Soul Out, the first solo exhibition in Italy by the Chinese artist Song Dong (Beijing, 1966). The project is curated by Li Zhenhua and Davide Quadrio, with Francesca Filisetti and Rebecca Ricci. Designed specifically for the spaces of the MAO, the exhibition extends across the entire museum: the works engage with the permanent collections and with the architecture of Palazzo Mazzonis, creating a route that connects places, objects and memories. The artist's most representative installations, alongside photographs and videos of performances made from the 1990s to today, recount more than thirty years of research. What emerges is a reading of contemporary China in which personal events and social change intertwine, bringing the intimate dimension of memory closer to collective history. Song Dong's work draws inspi