Marie Cool Fabio Balducci. Senza Sole

The P420 gallery is pleased to present the return of artist Marie Cool Fabio Balducci (Valenciennes, 1961 and Ostra, 1964). 

Over the last forty years, Marie Cool Fabio Balducci has created works that include a continuum of actions, films, photographs and personal ethics. Most of the works make space for everyday objects, repetition and bodily discipline, which relate to the changing conditions of work and the lack of access to it.

The works develop over time: small elements are added, reduced and altered as the bodies age. In this way, the differentiation between ‘old’ and ‘new’ works is intentionally blurred and obscured. In an age of hyper-consumption, Sunless presents scarcity.

Stripped-down acts of repetition reflect different deficiencies in everyday life: a feeling of defeat and shattered illusions is continually replaced by new vocabularies. This unease that lives in the body is both ancient and futuristic.

The conceptual and physical repetition becomes a sacred ritual. Perhaps this is the work that never stops, like an Eleusinian Mystery. Sunless.