Ending extreme poverty, combating inequality, fighting climate change… fifty years after the first UN conference on the human environment, the sustainable development goals identified in the 2030 Agenda remain far off. Pandemic, war in Ukraine, new winds of recession have produced worrying slowdowns and reversals in recent years, especially in the West. The most forward-looking approaches, harbingers of significant advances in social inclusion, clean energy, responsible consumption and universal access to public services now suffer, alternately, from obstructionism by radicals and reactionaries. What to do? How to counter the immobilism and apocalyptic drifts of our time? Competence and concreteness are effective antidotes, but willingness to embrace the multiple is also crucial. Reality, the emergencies that challenge us are multifaceted, multifaceted, changing, and measuring ourselves against complexity requires a responsible and conscious composition of distant points of view. Identity itself, personal or social, demands new relationships, new perspectives to define itself and overcome isolation. We are unique, multiple, inexorably linked. We are unique, multiple, inexorably linked. We are faces formed by other faces: choices, ideas, trajectories decomposed and recomposed in a game of precarious balances, harmonies and contrasts. On the fiftieth anniversary of Pablo Picasso’s death, Flessofab celebrates the immeasurable value of the Genius’ artistic research with a tribute to the Cubist construction, which aims to represent the totality of reality by summing up the different perspective planes, that is, the different visions of the world, in search of a futuristic synthesis.

