On December 2, 2002, at 6:30 PM, in the exhibition spaces of Careof at the Fabbrica del Vapore, the exhibition Punto di fuga opens, presenting the works of artists Heather Burnett and Marina Fulgeri.

By Heather Burnett, an English artist based in London and exhibiting for the first time in Italy, the video Witness:AnAesthetic will be presented. Edited with archival material filmed in Sierra Leone during the civil war and frames taken from Hollywood films, the work reflects on our desensitization to violence and how its representation has become part of everyday entertainment practices. The artist’s research revolves around the iconography of war and its spectacularization by the media. Her interest in these themes emerged during a stay in Bosnia and through meetings with political journalists who had documented actions in various conflict zones. The violence and rawness of certain images question the status of images, their power, and the boundaries between reality and fiction, which have become increasingly blurred, to the point of merging into an indistinct imaginary that functions as an anesthetic.

Marina Fulgeri, a young Italian artist from Bologna, presents a project titled Tutto previsto–tutto calcolato, conceived specifically for the space. Composed of multiple parts, it centers on the themes of safety and protection, which have become obsessions for contemporary society. In the courtyard, two inverted safety signs will point to each other, effectively nullifying their function. Next to them will be an emergency light installation, consisting of two fake plasterboard doors—two possible but illusory escape routes, true monuments to the emergency exit that reveal only their uselessness. Everything is oversized and unusable: the handles are too high, the height of the doors twice the real one. Finally, the video installation titled To be always into the move is an invitation to be captivated by suggestions and to seek the ever-changing within the ever-same. The works of the two artists reflect, from different perspectives, on the current psychological state of danger and permanent emergency in which we live, fueled by the media.