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AMARE E LA FINE DEL MONDO
New York City, 2025
Experimenting with opacity and light design in my new multimedia installation “Amare e la Fine del Mondo”
The work features three hand crafted mdf panels reminiscent of old school theatre set designs and a series of charcoal drawings on crumpled paper.
Exploring themes of grief and despair, a brutal wasteland is promptly interrupted by hidden large scale drawings and occasional video projections reminiscing (or proposing) a pulse of life in an otherwise desolate climate. Text is rendered illegible by texture and displaced language and public interaction is promoted by a dual reading of the pieces in the space.
Themes of migration, fractured lineages and political uncertainty are expressed via the overlapping of drawings made on crumpled tracing paper, a pictorial use of lighting and a spatial design that places the viewer in the ambiguous role of both actor and audience.