AGNESE SPOLVERINI
(Viterbo, 1994)vive e lavora a Viterbo
lives and works in Viterbo
Untitled(tears) - 2019
video (3’23’’), PC nero con display da 15.6’’,caricabatterie
dimensioni variabili
Untitled (tears) - 2019
video (3’23’’), black PC with 15.6’’ display, chargervariable size
excerpt from Untitled (tears), 2019 from Agnese Spolverini on Vimeo.
Con un gesto tra l’erotico e il sadico, l’artista strofina la mano su una piantina di Tillandsia Cyanea, che risponde secernendo una sostanza trasparente e vischiosa. Veder piangere questa pianta - oggetto limite, cosa-non cosa - trasporta lo spettatore in una dimensione ambigua, un viaggio fra tenerezza, dolore, erotismo e piacere sadico, un’immedesima-
zione continuamente oscillante fra la soddisfazione del carnefice e l’empatia con la vittima.
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By a gesture in between the erotic and the sadistic, the artist rubs a small Tillandsia Cyanea, that answers by secreting a transparent and sticky fluid. This tearing plant - a boundary object, thing-no-thing - brings the watcher within an ambiguous dimension, a trip among tenderness, pain, erotism, and sadistic pleasure, a continuous wavering between the executioner’s satisfaction and the empathy with the victim.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1uGz6fZl__C0CloTr8g8_eLOD9B8lJttN/view?usp=drivesdk
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