The World Within - PBF05 / Mattia Sugamiele
21 January - 27 March 2021
“A stream of images is coming into our homes.” - Paul Valéry (1928).
Series Gates
In the age of the coronavirus, at home, images are the only source of information from the outside world. The circulation of images scans our perception of time passing. Mattia Sugamiele focuses his research on the imaginary, collecting and archiving iconic images, particularly the ones concerning religion, its role in society, and the crisis it is living through at the moment. Parallel to this, the artist looks for representations of the virus in medical studies on the Internet, adding them to the religious images showing the collision between the fragility of religion and the crystallised truth of science.
