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Strappo alla regola (Breaking the Rule): "tipo sospetto".
Strappo alla regola (Breaking the Rule): "suspicious type".
Strappo alla regola (Breaking the Rule): "woman".
Strappo alla regola (Breaking the Rule): "man".
Strappo alla regola (Breaking the rule): "girl/boy".
Strappo alla regola (Breaking the rule): "other".
Strappo alla regola (Breaking the rule): "embossing Universalsurface".

Strappi alla regola (Break to the rule)

Performance


Duration 10 hours.

“Per4m”
Artissima 2014, Turin

curated by Simone Menegoi.

Almost incognito. At the entrance to Artissima. Neither inside nor outside, as in the cooler that separates the realm of the feminine from the realm of the masculine in Marcel Duchamp’s Grand Verre, I perform the duties of a mask, those of someone who checks the access tickets to the exhibition pavilion.

Paradoxically unnoticed by the masses, I check the entrance tickets of the spectators who come towards me with a reasoned variety of tears. Each intervention on the ticket arbitrarily interprets the character that the bearer suggests to me in the few seconds preceding their entry. In them I see a suspicious type, a curious type, a woman, a man, a girl, a boy as well as various other figures. Each tear is an artful gesture.

Most of the tickets, after visiting the pavilions, will end up in the trash, others will be forgotten in the pockets or between the pages of a book, a magazine or the fair catalogue. Perhaps someone will see something anomalous and new in the tear. Maybe someone will have gone through an artistic gesture without even realizing it and someone else will realize too late that they have done it.