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The space merchants5/13/2023 ![]() ![]() The video is played next to one installation composed of 1L TetraPak liquid food containers, printed with a blue world map. ![]() Another video installation shows an extract of promotional and corporate footage provided by TetraPak Italia and accompanied by Francis Lemarque’s soundtrack for Playtime, the pivotal film by Jacques Tati released in 1967 as a mockery of the modern myths and modern aesthetics of efficiency. The works include a video installation showing containerships and their ghostly movements filmed at different harbours across Europe. The works realized as part of The Space Merchants were exhibited at the Museo Laboratorio Arte Contemporanea in Rome (IT), for my solo exhibition curated by Lucrezia Cippitelli. In a hypothetical futuristic hyper-populated world, economy replaces politics publicity becomes a mirror and measurement for human values and merchandise a sign of happiness. These series of installations takes its title from a classic 1950’s sci-fi novel, The Space Merchants by Frederik Pohl and C. ![]()
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