The common thread linking Skerlj’s works lies in the exploration of noir themes—one of the most widely used formats in television—where the focus is placed on language, communication, and the development of plot.

The exhibition features, in particular, four of the video artist’s works: Rottura (1998, 8’), 2 + 1 (2001, 6’30”), Other Color (2000, 8’30”), Mute Rhythm (2004, 8’). The first three works come together as a triptych that repeats, in different versions, the same theme: murder. The use of color is original, the narration fragmented. Skerlj concentrates on the heterogeneous interpretative keys and expressive possibilities suggested by video. Ritmo Muto, one of his most recent works, draws on the famous essay by Albert Camus Le Mythe de Sisyphe (1942), in which the future Nobel laureate—then still very young—developed one of the central themes of the twentieth century: the spiritual crisis. Skerlj thus reflects on the paradox of existence, on the problem of humanity and spirituality, through a televisual language that disrupts and disorients the content.