In a moment of time where the politics of comfort in relation to those recipients of daily structural racism and violence has positioned safety as an objective, trigger warnings rest alongside institutional blanket statements, both fortified mechanisms of defense. These gestures, when situated within sites of intellectual development, education and scholarship; environments fraught with insensitivities and unchecked gatekeeping, often disregard the triggering nature of daily existence in relation to these very structures. When the trigger is pulled on a film camera all that takes place beyond its limited range of vision, its depth of field, is embedded in the space itself, in the bodies that occupied, have occupied and will occupy that space, in the exchange and in the experience of those who where there to bear witness.
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They Remain, 2023. Super 8 film transfer to video. Duration: 34 min, 13 sec; La Pulce, 2023. Vintage newspaper, vintage news display. 90x50x20 cm
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Al Lettore Benevolo, 2022. Super 8 film transfer to video with scaffolding, monitor, record player, found objects, wax, glass. 150x70x50 cm
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Mold, 2022. Plaster, shoe polish, sculpture support. 60x50x40 cm
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Le Arti Utili, 2023. Wood, shoe polish. 30x35x6 cm
