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| 23 January 2009 – 29 March 2009 |
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| Un grammo d'ansia, 2007 glass, plastic, laser print on stick label, nails 5,3 x 3 cm Courtesy the artist Photo: Valentina Muscedra |
| Simone Ialongo's work consists of a small pillbox. The seemingly naïve simplicity of the work is given the lie by its content: the artist's finger nails, the product of his anxiety and neuroses. Latching on to the concept underlying performance art, Ialongo places his own self at the centre of his work and uses himself as an example. The artist's work becomes an angst-filled vortex spinning in on it- and him-self, searching for a potential solution, or what we might even call a cure. At the same time, he illustrates a condition of angst that we all share, by using a gesture such as biting one's nails with which we are all familiar. His gramme of anxiety is the gramme that each of us consumes every day -- the dose of stress that each and every one of us has no choice but to take on a daily basis. |
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| Un grammo d'ansia, 2007 glass, plastic, laser print on stick label, nails 5,3 x 3 cm Courtesy the artist Photo: Valentina Muscedra |
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| Un grammo d'ansia, 2007 glass, plastic, laser print on stick label, nails 5,3 x 3 cm Courtesy the artist |
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