Yoke, 2022

Bic pen on paper laid down on canvas, three panels, 145x291 cm

 

 

 

Is a remake of the Aerei (Planes) series by Alighiero Boetti, which he realised since 1977. His planes fly over the planet in a joyful way, fluttering in a sky without borders. In this ways Alighiero Boetti celebrated the triumph of freedom of the imagination and free time, two elements that feed each other. On the contrary, in Giogo the abundance and surveillance of satellites overturns the values expressed in Boetti’s work: there is no freedom where there is capillary control. In turning the eyes to the sky and beyond the visible there is no longer God or mystery but control devices that accumulate data. A myriad of appartuses that separate humankind from the unknown and mysterious space and, like in a mirror, reflect life on Earth by feeding information. Consequently, the path between Earth and the universe is interrupted, apparatuses turn their look back to the planet. Technocentrism admits neither mystery nor freedom. Boetti’s game turns into a preconceived and applied subjugation of subjects.However, the work introduces the anomaly as possible a way out: in the uniformity of control apparatuses, a foreign element could become a chance of subversion through anomalous difference.

 

 

 

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