work
tavolino da caffè
| category | Video |
| subject | Political / Social |
| tags | |
| minutes | 1 |
| seconds | 43 |
| year | 2020 |
The sculpture, video work and performance Coffee table represents a projection of the artist's emotions after suffering an act of sexual violence: claustrophobia, suffocation and inability to move and react.
The artist has chosen to undergo again the same sensations experienced in that particular crushes and immobilizes the body without showing the discomfort and pain caused from the outside.
In addition, the breasts come out from the table downwards and the buttocks upwards, in order to outline a distorted and disabling situation even for the viewer. The sense of intimacy is plundered: the artist finds himself blocked and helpless inside the table without having control over what can happen.
As for the video, the stylistic choice of the fixed camera, of a few prolonged and monotonous scenes, leads the viewer to identify with an unlikely home context given by the setting and the surreal indifference of the characters.
This last choice reflects the fact that the act of violence took place in a protected place, an environment of apparent and supposed safety in which one is not aware of the danger.
The artist has chosen to undergo again the same sensations experienced in that particular crushes and immobilizes the body without showing the discomfort and pain caused from the outside.
In addition, the breasts come out from the table downwards and the buttocks upwards, in order to outline a distorted and disabling situation even for the viewer. The sense of intimacy is plundered: the artist finds himself blocked and helpless inside the table without having control over what can happen.
As for the video, the stylistic choice of the fixed camera, of a few prolonged and monotonous scenes, leads the viewer to identify with an unlikely home context given by the setting and the surreal indifference of the characters.
This last choice reflects the fact that the act of violence took place in a protected place, an environment of apparent and supposed safety in which one is not aware of the danger.
