SKINNED
Videoart
2018

A Dadaist collage on identity, constructed through impossible selfies taken by the protagonists of some of the most iconic masterpieces in the history of portraiture and self-portraiture.

These figures come alive and slip beyond the boundaries of their historical and cultural definition. Then, suddenly, they pick up a smartphone. They call. They wait.

The eternal suspension of those trapped in the sterile choreography of a call center enters the timeless, lyrical, and idealized space of the portrait.

Contemporary everyday life insinuates itself into these images as a foreign and corrosive force, both alienating and alienated. The result is a short circuit between the symbolic aura of art history and the banal violence of the present.

What lies beneath the skin, exposed and exhausted by the toxic radiation of the mobile phone? What would Leonardo da Vinci or Andy Warhol have done with this sinister device?
 

Shows
Fuorinorma Festival, Rome - 2019

Somos Art House | Un-Real Desires exhibition, Berlin - 2019

TECHNOMEME II @Fuse Factory Lab, Columbus - 2019

Ibrida Festival, Forlì - 2019

Simultan Festival, Romania - 2019

Festival of Italian Cinema, Lisbon - 2019
FILE Festival GAMES & ANIMA, Sao Paulo - 2019

Other Identity Biennale, Genova - 2019

Videoformes Festival, Clermont-Ferrand - 2020

NordArt Art Fair, Germany - 2021

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Credits
Concept, art direction, animation, editing - Francesca Fini
Music and sound-design - Andrea Assogna

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Media
Video-reportage from NordArt 2021 - open link