Screens

wall painting, acrylic paint, vinyl emulsion
2020


“The reality we observe through a window is always minimally ghostly, not fully real like the enclosed space where we are. [...] You perceive the external reality in a de-realized state as if you were watching a show on a screen ”.

Slavoy Zizek, The Architectural Parallax, 2013

Born from the desire to open a virtual window between two adjacent spaces, this series of works have proved to be tools for an investigation of the digital dimension and how it has determined the overcoming of the logical and spatial constraints within which not only reality, but our own imaginations are limited.
Central to this body of work is the reference to the Greenscreen, a special effect used in the film industry that allows replacing the background of the scene in post-production, with infinite places and images. The unmistakable fluorescent green, indelibly imprinted in the collective imagination, becomes an allegory of virtually unlimited spaces in which screens even kilometres away from each other become opposite sides of the same passage. The work, therefore, lives in a peculiar ambiguity: the reference to the world of cinema makes them screens, but the dialogue they establish through distinct spaces leads us to think of them as windows.

Each iteration of the series will take its name from the dimension of the screen (expressed in inches) and the colour chosen between the greenscreen and the bluescreen.

55” (blue) - Studio in Palazzo Carminati, Venice - 2023

55” (blue) - Studio in Palazzo Carminati, Venice - 2023




55” (blue) - Bruno Lorini’s Archive - 2022

55” (blue) - Bruno Lorini’s Archive - 2022




55” (blue) - friend’s bedroom - 2020

55” (blue) - friend’s bedroom - 2020