Agnese Galiotto

Cain’s Portrait “Cain’s Portrait is a video about my brother that makes plastic rockets. Failure and sacrifice are connected to a narration about the ancient story of the two brothers, Abel and Cain.” Agnese Galiotto (Arzignano 1996) lives and works between Milan and Frankfurt. Graduated at the Accademia di Brera, Milan, she is now studying […]

Gianluca Codeghini

I’m just a toy I’m just a toy is a relational metaphor, it’s an invitation to take a position, to find a point of view within the game. Cyclicity produces new rules between saying, doing and listening, between the immateriality of sound and the intangible musical silence. I’m just a toy is a private video […]

Orestis Mavroudis

Limone e Fragola A young girl is holding an ice-cream cone. Feelings of awkwardness and dissatisfaction are generated and gradually intensify, as the ice-cream’s weight becomes unbearable. Orestis Mavroudis (b.1988, Athens, Greece) lives and works in Athens. He studied History and Theory of Art at the University of Ioannina, Greece and at the Accademia di […]

Matteo Cremonesi

Зелени питон (Green python) This video is a single long still shot of a python during its daily life. Without particular events and behaviors, the shooting shows the “real time” of the act of seeing. Matteo Cremonesi (Milan, 1986) studied at Accademia di Brera (Milan). He displayed his work at Still Gallery (Antwerp), Festival Internacional […]

Sofia Bersanelli

Spiraea Spiraea is a southeast Asia plant. It’s also gracefully called “The field’s queen”. Through a visual itinerary, aimed at eviscerating the appearances of nature, this work shows the passages of a growing awareness by means of a simple and joyful soliloquy. Something really profound and beautiful seems to happen in the darkness of the […]

Elena Rebecca Rivolta

à la barre It is commonplace to think that classical dance is indicated to acquire fundamental skills for the perception, control, and coordination of the body in motion. À la barre illustrates some of the usual barre preparation and study exercises, which make up the most basic alphabet of classical dance, without using usual dancers. Elena Rebecca Rivolta (Milan, […]

Fani Zguro

Broken Threads   Dyslexic thoughts – text by Anri Sala Fani Zguro’s Broken Threads (2007) juxtaposes black and white shots from an Albanian spy movie with the dark tune of a murder ballad by Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds. In the film – Fijet që Priten (1973), which also translates as broken threads – […]

Francesco Bertocco

AFFECTIVE SCIENCES The National Center of Competence in Research Affective Sciences – Emotions in Individual Behavior and Social Processes (NCCR – Affective Sciences) is the most important organization that conducts large-scale studies on human emotions. Emotions, as we know them, are what most represent and identify the human being. They are our story and our uniqueness. […]

Mauro Folci

BOREDOM The video has a purely formal connection with a painting by Antonio Colantonio, Saint Jeronimus in his study (1444), showing the saint extracting a thorn from a lion’s paw. What is kept of this scene is the strange interaction between the animal’s paws and the saint’s hand, transposed in a live representation shot for […]