R.U.?  (self-portrait), 2022

R.U.? (self-portrait) recalls the shape of a dome, the remains of a house of worship that belong to a dystopic world imagined by the artist for the exhibition We will name her Tempest. “Are you looking at me?” urges a somber voice emanating from four megaphones. “Il me fout le mauvais oeil” [he put the evil eye on me], replies another voice after some silence, stressing the use of the “evil eye” as an instrument for re-establishing order. Within a dynamic of visual confrontations, gazes, and counter-gazes, the installation addresses the confrontational power relation between the observer and the person observed.

Extract from Bernardo Follini’s text, for the exhibition We will name her Tempest, translated by Matilde Foligno

GAMeC Collection