Works

A steel table and two welded chairs, rendered unusable, form an asymmetrical dispositif. Every day, a suspended glass reservoir releases a few drops of water onto the same point of the tabletop. The resulting corrosion makes visible the ambivalence of care: a gesture of upkeep that, repeated over time, becomes a form of alteration.

A chair with a folded backrest, designed by the artist, prescribes a single posture. Confronted with this norm embedded in the object, the drag king Dicklan tests, circumvents and reconfigures its intended use: across fifty-seven photographs, the series records the deviations of a body that refuses to conform.

Gathered from the residents of Santo Stefano di Sessanio, phrases heard at the table and handed down from one generation to the next form the libretto of a choral piece. Performed around a nine-metre table set up in the village square, the work turns family intimacy into collective speech, bringing to the surface the codes, hierarchies and silences that the meal perpetuates.