DAVIDE DE VIVO

Cipria (Face Powder)

photo-ceramic on glazed earthenware, sound system with contact speakers, wooden cabinet with plaster faux-marble top, 54 x 103 x 36 cm, 2025

I wander through spaces, as fascinating as they are desolate, of the collective hidden world. Piles and mountains of waste act as theatrical wings for ghosts. Here, reality loses its profile, its intimate trace. Cipria is a portal, a pool of water in which to immerse oneself, as comfortable as it is disturbing. Cipria is a screeching sound that resonates in the cavity of the night, as familiar as it is alien.
Still and alone, I watch the ceilings dripping with viscous liquid, which flows onto the plaster, bubbling on the parquet; everything blends and uproots, merging into an amorphous amalgam. Where has everyone gone? What did raspberries taste like? Everything around me becomes absurd, everything seems to attract me only to surprise me in deception: I decide to leave. First, however, I pick a portion, a fragment of this place. I offer it to you as I found it, in its naked and fantastic bizarre nature.

Biography


Born in Bassano del Grappa (VI) in 2005. Graduated from the De Fabris Art High School in Nove (VI) in Figurative Arts. Currently enrolled at the Academy of Fine Arts in Venice in Decoration Atelier B.

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