Selected biographies, 1994

Installazione.
“I asked some non artists friends, to write their biographies according to the model used in art books and museums, being aware that the presentation and the packaging are essential parts of art itself. This traditional use of informational modes made the viewer believe those were artists’ biographies, despite the absence of any art works. It was the viewer expectation that made any episode of their lives relevant; a divorce, social and political involvement, the birth of a child, mental troubles, events that might occur to everyone, but stated in a museum mount become somehow exceptional. I collected about twenty biographies and displayed them in plexiglass, wood plinths, frames, slide projections, pamphlets, panels, leaflets…”