The Inverted Tower: The Tarot as Form and Symbol

The tarot has long interested artists because of its nature as a complex form which, in its essence, contains a hermetic language whose interpretation conceals randomly organised associations of symbolic images. As such, the tarot is a peculiar book that is read from image to word.

The tarot has evolved over time as its iconography has become increasingly flexible due to subjective visions and utopian ideas. Thanks to its potential to open up the imagination and consciousness, it has acquired new dimensions and become a device that artists use to reflect on alternative futures, question rational thought and harness as a tool of self-awareness.

The study of the tarot contains multiple points of view. The exhibition itinerary therefore adopts a non-linear narrative order, like the structure of the cards themselves, composed by a series of artists who have used the meaning and possibilities of the tarot in their works.