Founded on an interest in exploring the human presence within processes of production and creation, the two artists’ method has always imposed an assimilation of one into the other. Their research asserts itself as the imposition of a heteronomy that is not experienced as an alter ego, but is the result of acquisitions, appropriations, and deflections that mock individuality.

Gestione Motrice Romana Gioie e Piaceri is a collective founded in 2023 by Gaia Maria Rampello and Giorgia Papucci. The name is itself the first artwork — an acronym inspired by commercial abbreviations and expanded as a reflection on authorship and personality-as-label.

Their research, spanning installation, performance, audio, and video, explores the boundary between product and project, with particular attention to the human presence in creation and production processes.

Collettivo G.M.R.G.P. investigates repetition as a mechanism for constructing reality: a cycle without resolution or evolution. Seriality emerges and transforms into gestures, into the exacerbation of confrontation between colleagues and friends, in a dynamic of supremacy and assertion. It becomes an object — an experiment in the symbiosis between artwork and market — shifting status depending on the context. Finally, it takes root in the body, a choreographic device and living archive, bearing witness to a system that dissolves human presence into the uninterrupted flow of production.

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