The Look Closer 02 project , now in its second edition, expresses the very essence of the SuperOtium hotel that hosts it in Naples. Nine curators interpret with seven artists the nature and vocation of the art hotel created by the curator of the exhibition himself,with Vincenzo Falcione:become welcoming, stimulating and building an international community of travelers and creatives, made protagonists of a network of exchange and osmosis between the energies of the Neapolitan city and the world, placing the local fabric in dialogue with the hotel guests. Who, however, become in turn “hosts” who open their rooms and temporary privacy to allow the viewing of the works, fluidizing roles and contributions.
Exploration, doubt, discussion, discomfort and pleasure in the boundary between self and outside emerge early on in the “fragile and powerful”-in Ciancio’s words-ambivalence of Kobramulata, curated by Dario Biancullo and Lorenzo Xiques López: an armchair, or prison, literally intertwined with identity afro-braids, textiles wrapped as overthinking, tattered sheets as yearnings for freedom and escape from the comfort, or prison, of withdrawal into self. Transformative, metamorphic, disturbingly seductive, and multi-sensory like the creatures of Nathalie Djurberg or Louise Bourgeois, it establishes the interrogative thesis of the exhibition theme, hovering between art and object-furniture of function.
Source: Artribune
