Better off alone, 2025
(Audio recording, radio, single bed in big room)
Duration: 00:01:26
The time of observation is here intertwined with that of listening; a sound announces itself, spreading through the acoustic vaults of the adjacent room. A small radio, placed next to an empty bed, seems to grapple with the scale of the space, attempting to construct a counter-sonic architecture. Better off Alone unfolds as an emotional trajectory in which the voice—recorded elsewhere in the building—resurfaces as a fleeting passage, now absent, with only the bed bearing witness to its trace. A chant—half-whispered rendition of a famous early-2000s hit—that invokes, like a prayer, the dissonance of a time that believed in the clarity of answers. Then it fades into a mere hint, a nearly childlike whistle, a solitary reverberation that contrasts with the insistent linguistic articulation of the sound piece at the exhibition’s entrance.
Text by Giulia Giacomelli
Patrons and funders: Alchemilla, Palazzo Vizzani Lambertini Sanguinetti, Fondazione del Monte di Bologna e Ravenna, Fondazione Zucchelli e Banca di Bologna
Commissioned by: Alchemilla
Engineering and realisation: Friedrich Andreoni, Carlo Crovato and Yasuyuki Morimoto
In collaboration with: Corniolo Art Platform, Associazione L’Altra, Galerie Met e Fondazione Claudia Cardinale
Special thanks: Camilla Sanguinetti and all the Sanguinetti family, Carlo Crovato, Yasuyuki Morimoto, Mirko Barbieri, 3F Filippi | Targetti Group, Thano Papanikolau, Daniele Gasparinetti, Giorgia Ottalevi e Maura Nobilini, Leonardo Morfini, Asya Dall’Agata, Elena Mascii, Claudia Squitieri e Fondazione Claudia Cardinale, Federico Abate, Federica Di Rosa, Paola Casari, Martina Pozzobon, Banca di Bologna, Galerie Met and all those who preferred to stay anonymous.
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This artwork is included in the following publications:
Atribune by Caterina Angelucci
ATP DIARY by Federico Abate
Juliet Art Magazine by Emanuela Zanon
Segno online by Paola Casari
