Careof will host the exhibition Start and the video screening Play from May 9 to 29. This is the first stage of a project aimed at monitoring over time the changes, directions, and intentions driving the artistic research of the latest generations.

Start presents the works of five young artists. The black and white video by Alexandros Kyriakides (Athens, 1979) recalls early silent films or old scientific and educational documentaries from the 1960s. With marked irony, the Greek artist brings us back, forty years later, to situations echoing the first attempts at space exploration, reinterpreted with a new playful spirit and translated into surreal fragments of reality. Rossella Biscotti’s (Bari, 1978) video installation also offers glimpses of reality, but this time through a personal and intimate presentation of the everyday, based on static shots that create unsettling situations, destabilizing the normal perception of moving images and approaching an almost photographic stillness. Croatian artist Dragana Sapanajos (Capodistria, 1979) presents a project realized through meticulously crafted models—miniature rooms whose glass walls allow one to peer inside. A tiny figure, a stand-in for the audience/viewer, interacts with the ventilated room, loses control of its body, and begins to swirl through the space. Luca Bertini’s (Lugano, 1979) work also aims to involve the viewer, but in a more ethereal and virtual way, moving through the “net.” The artist stages a telematic performance that exits the confined space of the gallery and enters people’s lives, violating their privacy. His provocative phone messages, sent out months before the exhibition, camouflage themselves and reach an unsuspecting and thus more vulnerable audience. Of an entirely different nature is the work of Barbara Aloisio (Sondrio, 1980) who, with obsessive meticulousness, creates delicate little outfits to “warm” the internal organs of the proteinized body of the third millennium.

Special thanks to Davide Stoppa of the Pianissimo gallery in Milan.