Photo by Kurt Tong

Tales on Inequalities

9 4 2025

Free admission upon registration

Inequality is defined as an unjustified difference in access to social goods, whether relating to class, economic status, gender or ethnicity. This raises the following questions: what is the origin of the concept of inequality? Why do inequalities persist and reproduce themselves? What are the specific responsibilities of family, education system and public institutions? How effectively is the State capable of correcting initial inequalities among social groups? This questions will be discussed at a meeting organized to coincide with the International Exhibition Inequalities, in collaboration with Moby Dick Festival.

Program
3:00 PM – 3:30 PM
Keynote lecture
with
Geoffroy de Lagasnerie, French philosopher and sociologist, professor at the École Nationale Supérieure d'Arts de Paris Cergy.
The process of urbanisation and the deviance that arises from contexts of marginality, lack of resources and low social cohesion are examined through the lens of delinquency.

3:30 PM – 5:00 PM
Session 1

with
– Kurt Tong, artist and photographer from Hong Kong
A love letter to Kurt Tong’s nanny and the tradition of the Comb Sisters, Chinese women who chose not to get married and to remain independent.
– Evangelia Kranioti, visual artist and photographer from Greece
Rejecting any identity constraints assigned by society at birth and using bodies as a tool for political opposition to social norms.
– Max de Paz, French writer
The uncompromising polyphony of marginalization: the explosion of a family and the abyss of a life spent begging.

Panel
Stefano Boeri, President of Triennale Milano; Damiano Gullì, Curator for Contemporary Art and Public Program, Triennale Milano; Seble Woldeghiorghis, Strategic Consultant.

5.00 PM – 7.00 PM
Session 2
with
– Tash Aw, Malaysian writer
A memoir that explores a story of emigration, the complexity between memory and unconscious removal and the intergenerational impact of displacement.
– Edouard Louis, French writer
When literature is politics. The concept of being a “transfuge de classe” is balanced between the dominant and working classes, the masculine and feminine and self-determination and submission.
– Didier Eribon, French philosopher and sociologist
Society is seen as a verdict, with shame, guilt and silence not being viewed as individual choices, but rather as responses to exclusionary mechanisms enacted by social structures.

Panel
Anais Ginori, journalist and correspondent from Paris for "La Repubblica"; Stefano Boeri, President, Triennale Milano; Giovanni Agosti, professor of History of Art, State University of Milan.

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Info

Official languages: French/English/Italian. Translations by Paolo Maria Noseda

Credits

In collaboration with Elisa Sommaruga and Paolo Martini - Moby Dick Festival