Every day we are constantly bombarded with messages, millions of posts and tweets in social networks, direct intrusions into our conscience, which quickly begin to rise in the palm of each hand. Such assaults are so persistent as to have profoundly altered our cognitive style, learning methods, and systems for understanding and processing information.
This imprisonment, which derives from a global situation characterized by the invasive experience of a world filtered by smartphones, imposes an ever faster pace. Thanks to the massive diffusion of the network, its dynamics seem to some extent at the mercy of contradictory flows of information. Real news is denied by phony, reliable notices that follow and get mixed up with others without any foundation, secure communications and misleading announcements. You create a website, place a “sensitive” title, use adjectives wisely, and then insert a “powerful” photo, and the target is (almost always) centered. How many of us have the critical tools to decode and defend against deliberate and systematic manipulations, disparaging or promotional campaigns, ambiguous and stubbornly continuous messages? How many of us live imprisoned in solitude and individualism?
What is it and where does this closure in oneself come from, if not from a powerful and diametrically opposed force to solidarity, from a negative energy that blocks the beneficial effects of making each other strong and essential for life in society?
Video frame
Sculpture (20 x 75 x 20cm)
2018