From the microcosm of the objects and foods found in every Italian kitchen, those humble elements that accompany daily life and quietly define us as a people, begins a reflection on the macrocosm of the ideals on which our collective life is supposed to rest.
 

In this work, the four articles of the Italian Constitution that I consider most essential are reconstructed through the gestures and materials of everyday domestic life. The result is ironic, but only on the surface. Beneath it lies an allusion to the daily betrayal of these values, always imagined as happening elsewhere, far from us, never within the ordinary rituals that shape our own lives.

Letters made of macaroni, greedily devoured by an invisible hand, compose the words of the Constitution, recited in a slow and alienating litany: Italy is a democratic Republic founded on labor. Sovereignty belongs to the people. But the sovereign people appears here as a brain of spaghetti served beneath a yellow plastic helmet.
 

In this video, I release anger. An anger that erupts and vanishes just as quickly, like the indignation and disgust of the respectable souls of our country. This is Italy, in a gesture suspended between accusation and belonging, between hate letter and love letter.

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Shows
Simultan Festival, Romania - 2013

Magmart video art festival IX - 2015
MACRO La Pelanda, Nuvola Creativa, Rome - 2017

Personal exhibition @ T*Danse Festival, Aosta - 2017

RED personal exhibition, Rome - 2018

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Credits
Concept, art direction, animation, editing - Francesca Fini