Lie detector - La macchina della verità is an art book produced by the Upiglio printshop, involving Alvise Bittente, Elena Mocchetti, Margherita Morgantin, Sara Rossi, Alessandra Spranzi, and Pasquale Campanella (Wurmkos). The edition, produced in 30 copies, is conceived as a notebook and a series of studies accompanying an unpublished text by Matteo Martini titled La macchina della verità. Invited to work on the text, the six artists each developed a project using graphic and intaglio printmaking techniques.

At Careof, alongside the book Lie detector - La macchina della verità, some of the prints created by the artists are also presented.

[…] The birth of a word comes from a distant pond where water spiders play chase. It is a calm expanse between the dense liquid of hidden fluids and the solid settling of inert material. A signal develops that rises like an air bubble to the surface, runs through a thousand obstacles, and reaches its destination. It gets stuck in a dead end, and its pressure activates an infinity of muscles that bend and contract. […]

The cultural association HC, Hors commerce, takes its name from the French phrase meaning “Out of commerce,” used in art graphics to indicate copies outside the commercial edition. HC was founded by a group of artists in February 2009 during their time at the Daniele Upiglio printshop in Milan, where it is currently based. It is a non-profit organization born from the need to share and promote artistic and cultural projects and events both nationally and internationally.

With the contribution of Fondazione Cariplo