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PANORAMICA*23 // Bodies matter
An overlook at the production of Italian video art in 2023
Curated by Alessandra Arnò – Visualcontainer
March 13, 2024
from 7 pm to 10 pm
at SuperOtium
via Santa Teresa degli Scalzi 8, Naples
In the evening dedicated to the video art Mumasha (a dance) organized by VVV-R at the SuperOtium space, we were invited as a guest project together with L’Arsenale di Napoli to share visions and conversations on the occasion of VVV-R’s ten years of activity.
Mumasha, a Hunger, an Endless Flow curated by VVV-R
with Nancy Violet Down, Chanda Mwamba, William Sipling and Prajvi Mandhani
Bodies Matter curated by Alessandra Arnò
with: Matteo Campulla, Silvia De Gennaro, Enzo Cillo, DEHORS/AUDELA, Carlo Galbiati, Massimiliano Marianni, Anouk Chambaz, Emma Scarafiotti, Sara Bonaventura, Gianni Barelli, Mariangela Bombardieri, Duccio Ricciardelli – Marco Bartolini.
Music – Piero Chiariello, curated by Arsenale of Naples by Marco Izzolino
PANORAMICA*23 is the collection by the national call of the most original and significant video artworks created in 2023. The selection intends to investigate the production of the territory and provide a current look at ongoing research, sharing it with the public through exhibitions and screenings on the national and international circuit and as a result of Italian videographic research.
PANORAMICA*23 // BODIES MATTER
The curator’s selection shows the complexity of the representation of the body and the human through the reflections of twelve artists who investigate with heterogeneous languages the relationship between the physical body and the digital simulacrum, between re-mediation of vision and visual suggestions that reach the actual data, raw and current.
The multiple themes revealed meta-bodies’ obsession with the virtual world, the anxiety of bodies and the self to adapt to reality, and the need to unfold in other forms to claim one’s status. Suppose virtual bodies inhabit digital space and connect to a vision of another world, where thought becomes a flow of frequencies that deconstruct space and time in a reassuring suspension. In that case, bodies of flesh and blood must defend themselves and fight for their existence and visibility. They must deal with social limits and conventions, sometimes imagining changing their skin or living together and implementing strategies to assert themselves.
Within an introspective and visual loop, the viewer is invited to reflect on visible and invisible bodies and, finally, to engage in a well-known projective psychological exercise.
VIDEOART SELECTION
Matteo Campulla – AN ETERNAL IDLENESS, 3:10, 2023
Silvia De Gennaro – Gaia – Uni(co)verso, 03:35, 2023
Enzo Cillo – Destruction of the Field, 5:00, 2023
DEHORS/AUDELA (Salvatore Insana, Elisa Turco Liveri) – RED, 5:00, 2023
Carlo Galbiati – Le mot couleur, 1:00, 2023
Massimiliano Marianni (1979) – In between, 4:20, 2023
Anouk Chambaz – Mon rire est cascade, 2:40, 2023
Emma Scarafiotti – Nettuno: Birth of a Shell, 7:00, 2023
Sara Bonaventura – Practicing Defense, 3:00 pm, 2023
Gianni Barelli – The Raft of the Medusa 3:14, 2023
Mariangela Bombardieri – Date, 30:00 (excerpt 10:00), 2023
Duccio Ricciardelli – Marco Bartolini – The Rorschach program – number 1, 4:00, 2023
SuperOtium is an art residency space focused on contemporary cultures that combines hospitality activity with a program of residencies for artists, writers, designers and curators, meetings, events, and exhibitions to stimulate meetings and exchanges between inhabitants and travellers and promote a new narrative of the city of Naples.
www.superotium.it
