Rebecca Moccia: Sempre Più di Questo
The two rooms in the gallery will host two ostensibly different situations: one room will display work in which Rebecca Moccia (b.1992, Naples) reflects on the essence of video images, writing and sculptures, while the second space will come to life with pieces produced jointly with other artists she has involved especially for the occasion.
The first room at Galleria Massimodeluca will host works which, due to their apparent fragility and compact nature, give the viewer the impression of discovering that place, and first impressions will inevitably be of an estranged, contemplative silence. The works have been produced using a variety of different expressive techniques, such as video, sculpture, writing and photography, but they come across as more site specific. The thought of evoking rather than remembering is at the heart of all the works in the exhibition, works whose common thread is Moccia‘s desire to “be amazed, together with the spectators, by the details concealed in everyday life that bring it to life”.
Her desire to give shape and form to this dialogue with our surroundings has led the artist to work with other artists to produce a collection entitled on air on air. In this particular case, the surrounding world is represented by the artwork, the exchange of ideas between artists, identifying what we mean by creative act and how it comes to life and takes shape. This project within a project is a means of encouraging further reflection on the relationship between author, object and observer and what we mean today by participation and empathy, the ethical nature of our vision and the creation of new feelings of belonging.
The two moods that will permeate the two rooms at Galleria Massimodeluca have the same underlying desire to experience and share, albeit momentarily, the moments/places in our lives. This tension is well illustrated by Parabola. The image, as the artist described in a conversation with Lorenzo Bruni, which will be published in the catalogue, is “a satellite dish painted with paint normally used for cars in a blinding gold shade which reflects on the urban landscape when the sun starts going down, before sunset. A dish for transmission/reception, a point which projects your mind and eyes to the future, an accomplice of communication. We see these receivers shining every day, like the tips of towering glass buildings, they act out dialogues with light, with an imaginary or real satellite system, which we intercept in amazement…so, as you said, my intent was certainly not melancholy, it had a different focus.”
