In its gestures and rhythms, the exhibition reveals how the promise of self-realization is entangled with the demands of performance, turning affirmation into a cycle at once alluring and unsettling.

MANIFESTING is a site-specific exhibition composed of three elements, installed in Pastificio Cerere’s Spazio Molini.
The title echoes the idea of “manifesting” — the daily repetition, like a mantra, of a goal to be achieved. According to the law of attraction, repetition shapes reality.

Descending into the visceral Spazio Molini, in the first corridor on the right, two screens emerge from the darkness. DRESS FOR SUCCESS: HOW TO TIE A TIE and HOW TO CHOOSE THE PERFECT TIE are two complementary video performances that simultaneously display the processes of choosing and tying a tie — ominously looped, never reaching a compromise.

Pole_A is a 10-minute video performance: using the ASMR format, the viewer is immersed in an apparently pleasant sound bath, but with unsettling content. Messages promoting motivation and personal growth reveal their intrinsic persuasiveness in conforming to expectations of productivity and physical performance. The themes addressed by Pole A draw from the typical vocabulary of lifestyle culture, proposing themselves as a substitute mantra for our own reasons to “do more.”

From a door-sized aperture, the final work peers out from the darkness. Getting closer, the viewer discovers a billboard trapped in a cellar-like space. POSTUMER brings the ritual of street advertising back into a mantric dimension in a performative installation where, every day of the exhibition, Gaia Maria Rampello (co-founder of the collective) pastes a new “daily pill” poster.

Produrre, stipare e poi assumere.
Partire dall'assunzione ogni 24 ore.
Un ciclo di risciacqui-ristagni di parole non dette,
azioni compiute soltanto in sonoro.
Alza il volume.
Leggi a voce alta.
Tu torna,
il soft-psychologist prescrive prestazioni a bocca socchiusa.
Somministra una griglia di stimoli a grandezza falsata,
16:9 di toni a prova di misofoni,
spartito di suoni gutturali e frasi manifeste.
Suggere,
"nell'atto di",
il suono più antico,
ti prepari a buttare giù il quantum di un effetto placebo,
feticcio del ridurre tutto a frequenze e immagini ovattate da membrane virtuali.
È un mero effetto, come la spinta sul diaframma durante espliciti atti a occhi chiusi.
Hai bisogno di una fruizione immediata che ti rimetta al…