Melancholia is Chiara Fantaccione solo show curated by Valentina Muzi. The artist’s research explores the idealized representation of Nature and landscape through attributing them qualities belonging to the human world. The issue of melancholy is here closely related to the technological dimension and digital failures through a seductive and aesthetic connotation.
Complex and ambivalent, melancholia is a pathological alteration of mood, marked by an unmotivated sadness and inhibition to life. In its current dimension, this cloudy feeling is closely linked to contemporary social problems, becoming a theme that not only questions the individual, but the entire community, permeated by a technology that “instead of connecting, aims to destroy”, as analyzed by Geert Lovink in his ‘Sad by Design, On Platform Nihilism’. (Valentina Muzi)
