BIGOTRY IN EVOLUTION

Bigotry in Evolution is an exhibition by Matteo De Caminada, first presented at Kleine Galerie Bozen, that confronts the contemporary resurgence of bigotry as a global, evolving force. Across continents, reactionary ideologies are no longer fringe; they are reorganising themselves, gaining power, and reshaping public life. What we are witnessing is not a return to the past, but a mutation: modern bigotry adapting to new technologies, new political strategies, and new fears. The exhibition traces how today’s waves of right-wing extremism, nationalism, misogyny, homophobia, and transphobia intersect with global conflicts, media manipulation, and political leadership that thrives on division. From culture wars to actual wars, the violence of exclusion is no longer symbolic; it is structural, normalised, and exported worldwide. Bigotry in Evolution responds with refusal. Refusal to be silent. Refusal to be neutral. Refusal to shrink. The exhibition asserts the necessity of pride, queerness, feminism, openness, and collective resistance as political acts. Being loud, visible, and unapologetic is not an aesthetic choice; it is a condition of survival. Rather than offering comfort, the works presented expose mechanisms of power, fear, and control, while reclaiming vulnerability and solidarity as tools of opposition. The exhibition asks how bigotry evolves and, more urgently, how resistance must evolve alongside it. This is a call to remember that openness is not weakness, care is not naïveté, and pride is not provocation. In a moment when reactionary forces attempt to dominate narratives, borders, and bodies, Bigotry in Evolution insists on radical visibility and shared responsibility.