Bodiesbodies

James Bantone, Costanza Candeloro, Giulia Essyad, Eleonora Luccarini

Curated by Lucrezia Galeotti and Giacomo Pigliapoco

At La rada, Locarno

November 26, 2022 — January 15, 2023

La rada is pleased to present Bodiesbodies, an exhibition curated by Lucrezia Galeotti and Giacomo Pigliapoco, scheduled from Nov. 26, 2022 to Jan. 15, 2023. The group show involves artists James Bantone, Costanza Candeloro, Giulia Essyad and Eleonora Luccarini.

Bodiesbodies presents itself as an open and fragmentary discourse on meta-identity, in which sculptures, installations, videos and performances combine to draw a hybrid space between body, gender and alterity. Intended as a space to explore, the exhibition tests and expands boundaries concerning questions of identity.

The exhibition proposes some possible visions of the human body related to constant exposure to cinematic languages and the narrative genre called Theory Fiction.

With the media’s increasing focus on behaviors, feelings, psyches, and fragments of intimate and autobiographical experiences, we ourselves become the site and the medium of propagating others’ behaviors, taking on the choices and aesthetics of entertainment. Our bodies are continually forced into confrontation with a shared and socially ideal idea of the body, of others. This mechanism has unequivocally pushed society toward a new sphere of identity, where aspects related to gender, race and sexuality are permeated through the products of the film industry, television series and the most varied and disparate narrative languages used for entertainment or marketing purposes.

All the parts that make up the exhibition are fragments of different methodologies and ways of telling and understanding the same shared story.

Exhibition view
Exhibition view
Costanza Candeloro Abstraction & Figuration 2022 Glass Structure, Magnifying Glass Bags, Magazine Extract, Drawing 69,5 × 50 × 30 cm
Costanza Candeloro Integrity & Decadence 2022 Glass Structure, Magnifying Glass Bags, Magazine Extract, Drawing 69,5 × 50 × 30 cm
Costanza Candeloro The Cocktail Party Effect - Performance Script 2022 Ceramic 29,7 x 21,0 cm / The Cocktail Party Effect - Performance Script 2022 Ceramic 29,7 x 21,0 cm
Costanza Candeloro The Cocktail Party Effect - Performance Script 2022 Ceramic 29,7 x 21,0 cm / The Cocktail Party Effect - Performance Script 2022 Ceramic 29,7 x 21,0 cm
Costanza Candeloro The Cocktail Party Effect - Performance Script 2022 Ceramic 29,7 x 21,0 cm / The Cocktail Party Effect - Performance Script 2022 Ceramic 29,7 x 21,0 cm
James Bantone Untitled (Fool of the Month) 2022 Print on adhesive paper dimensions variable
James Bantone Child’s Play 04 2022 Neoprene, thread, shirt, safety pins, fiber glass 130 x 80 x 60 cm
James Bantone Child’s Play 04 2022 Neoprene, thread, shirt, safety pins, fiber glass 130 x 80 x 60 cm
James Bantone Child’s Play 04 2022 Neoprene, thread, shirt, safety pins, fiber glass 130 x 80 x 60 cm
James Bantone Child’s Play 04 2022 Neoprene, thread, shirt, safety pins, fiber glass 130 x 80 x 60 cm
Giulia Essyad BLUEBOT: Awakening 2021 video 26’27’’ color, sound
Exhibition view
Eleonora Luccarini Living at the peak (portrait of Léonard Santé), 2022 Installation LED lightbox, printed fabric 70 x 100 x 12 cm

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