FACE THE MUSIC
FACE THE MUSIC
Video Art Exhibition
March 18, 2025
From 7:00 PM to 10:00 PM
At SuperOtium
via Santa Teresa degli Scalzi, 8 – 80135 Naples
SuperOtium, in collaboration with Ex-Voto Radical Public Culture, Visual Container, and Francesca Blandino for Collezione Agovino, presents Face the Music—an evening dedicated to video art.
The screening will feature:
SUSPENDED DIALOGUES – A selection of the most original and significant works by Italian artists, curated by Visual Container for the fourth edition of Panoramica*24.
SOMETHING IS NOT GOING VERY WELL – 3 works produced in the framework of VVV-Residency project curated by Alessandra Arnò and Simona Da Pozzo for AUB fine art.
MADONNA Y EL NIÑO – A special guest video work by Trisha Baga, courtesy of Collezione Agovino.
At the core of these works is a shared exploration of boundaries and escape strategies—acts of resistance in the face of personal, social, and global crises.
PANORAMICA*24 // SUSPENDED DIALOGUES
Artists: Isobel Blank, Alessandra Caccia, Matteo Campulla, Eleonora Cutini, Silvia De Gennaro, Paolo Ferrari/C999, Eleonora Roaro, Duccio Ricciardelli & Marco Bartolini, Giulia Savorani
This selection brings together nine artists whose work navigates the intersection of memory, narration, and personal reflection. Suspended between reality and subconscious, analog and digital, their explorations blur the lines between past and present, performance and perception.
SOMETHING IS NOT GOING VERY WELL
Artists: Maria Aoyama, Will Sibley, Lara Zimmern
These three artists use cinematic subjectivity to immerse viewers in dystopian visions that question the gap between memory and action, the artificial and the natural, the medical and the ecstatic.
Maria Aoyama reinterprets General Motors’ advertising propaganda, transforming images of floods and waves into pixelated fragments that unravel capitalist positivism.
Will Sibley dives into the material depths of the digital world, blending video game aesthetics with organic and mechanical imagery, creating a sensory fusion between body and web.
Lara Zimmern explores dance as a form of resistance—both a personal escape and a collective act of defiance, where movement becomes a ritual of resilience.
MADONNA Y EL NIÑO – Trisha Baga
Trisha Baga’s work balances between video and performance, engaging audiences in unpredictable ways. In Madonna y el Niño, fleeting moments of Madonna’s pop performances are reassembled alongside the powerful, catastrophic force of El Niño—drawing a parallel between human spectacle and natural upheaval.
This event is part of SuperOtium’s cultural program, curated by Nicola Ciancio, and aligns with this season’s theme, Ricami—a metaphor for the delicate and intricate traces left behind after a journey or an encounter.
Works and artists:
Paolo Ferrari/C999 – Spectrum, 2:30, 2023/24
Silvia De Gennaro – Spiritual AI, 2:45, 2024
Matteo Campulla – You can’t never talk about what you love,5:09, 2024
Isobel Blank – Symbiosis, 3:39, 2024
Giulia Savorani – La nuotatrice, 00:42, 2024
Eleonora Cutini – Nessuno è senza Colpa, 5:41, 2024
Eleonora Roaro – “The Boom: After Marco Ferreri”, 11:37, 2024
Alessandra Caccia – Giove in doppiopetto, 6:18, 2024
Duccio Ricciardelli e Marco Bartolini – The Rorschach Programme – Number 2, 3:11, 2024
Maria Sayoko Aoyama – NEW HORIZONS 3’54’’, 1280 x 720, colour, stereo, 2025.
Will Sibley – UN/FAMILIAR 3’19”, 1280 x 720, colour, stereo, 2025.
Lara Zimmern – RECOMMENDED DOSAGE 2’13”, 1920 x 1080, colour, stereo, 2025.
Trisha Baga – Madonna y el Niño, 2010, disco ball, digital video projection (color, sound, 25 minutes 14 seconds), dimensions variable
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PANORAMICA*, now in its fourth edition, selects the most original and significant video art works produced in Italy in 2024. The project aims to promote experimental audiovisual production and provide an up-to-date overview of urgent themes and ongoing artistic research.
The cultural objective of PANORAMICA* is to collect and share the most meaningful works with the public through exhibitions and screenings in both national and international circuits. The curated selection contributes to the ongoing research on Italian video art that Visualcontainer has been developing since 2008.
VVV Residency aims to be a virtual space for critical reflection and a moment of production for video art.
The residency focuses on video-trouvé as a means of looking at one’s own research through the eyes of others: a theme that needs to be addressed nowadays in order to explore how human interaction and the perception of reality are constantly glitching within the interfaces of the screen.
Five artists-in-residence engage with different digital tools: a blog, a webinar platform, digital and physical archives, and a streaming platform.
The residency is aimed at creating video works that will be presented as part of the ongoing online exhibition streamed on VisualcontainerTv for one month.
VVV Residency is a project curated by Alessandra Arnò and Simona Da Pozzo and produced by Ex-Voto for AUB Fine Art. They have been collaborating on various projects since 2014, both in the real and digital world.
The Agovino Collection was founded by Fabio Agovino, a financial consultant with a long-standing passion and interest in contemporary art. Comprising more than two hundred works, the collection embarked on an exhibition and cultural program in Naples and beyond starting in 2011. In 2022, it launched the project “Do Animals go to Heaven?” at the Church of Purgatory in Matera. In collaboration with Francesca Blandino, the collection aims to align its activities—exhibitions, publications, and loans—with the present day, reflecting current imaginaries, issues, and aspirations, both individual and communal.
VisualcontainerTv International Videoart webchannel, edited by Alessandra Arnò, since 2009 presents video art projects and festivals curated by curators and festival directors, interviews and monographic programmes from all over the world. It is a renowned cultural project, aimed at video art lovers, students, curators and the general public, a place to find the best selection of video art for free and for cultural purposes. The project aims to disseminate the latest and freshest research in the video art scene under the care of visualcontainer and many other partners worldwide in a comprehensive overview.
Ex-Voto realises complex projects focusing on active socialisation, co-creation and networking as tools for enhancing the activities and resources of the territory and communities. This is the case of Rooms’ Contest (a competition for inhabitants of shared flats that investigates the relationship between private and public space), the Non Riservato Talks (discussion tables between inhabitants, cultural operators and institutions) that give rise to Non Riservato (a network project with a productive vocation of realities that act in Milan’s public space in creative ways) the screening project Action Frame that anticipates the international video art residency project Camouflage, the talk Conversazioni Domestiche per Azioni Pubbliche (aimed at sharing practices where creativity becomes a tool for social transformation), as well as projects in the curatorial and artistic spheres such as Borderlight, Hacking Monuments, A New Hymn 4 New Neapolis, Glocary and others.
Francesca Blandino is an art historian, museum educator, and independent curator. Born in Benevento, she lives and works in Naples. Her research explores the crucial role that art plays in developing complex thought about the present and new imaginaries for the future. She curates and leads projects that combine relational art, experiential education, and reflections on the redefinition of collective values. Currently, she works at the Morra Greco Foundation, where she is responsible for educational activities and the archive. She is also part of the Le Scalze Coordination with the Archintorno Association and serves as curator for the Agovino Collection.
SuperOtium is a house in the heart of Naples, founded by Nicola Ciancio and Vincenzo Falcione, designed to welcome tourists, artists, travellers and creative people. It is a meeting place where artists’ residencies, meetings, exhibitions and thè receptive activity coexist, to inspire artists and creatives and question travellers’ assumptions, proposing new perspectives through which to look at the city. SuperOtium’s residency programme featured, among others, Kensuke Koike, Martina Merlini, Pierre-Antoine Vettorello, Pietro Gaglianò, Massimo Uberti, Hypereden, Bianca Felicori (Forgotten Architecture), Paz Ortùzar (in collaboration with the Cervantes Institute of Naples) Giovanna Silva (in collaboration with Lorenzo Xiques), Nuvola Ravera (in collaboration with Made in Cloister), Blase (in collaboration with ShowDesk), Yasser Almaamoun (in collaboration with the Goethe Institut), Khaled El Mays (in collaboration with Edit Napoli).