Careful What You Wish For
DISPLAY
February 8—March 15, 2025
Parma, Italy
DISPLAY
February 8—March 15, 2025
Parma, Italy
Careful What You Wish For examines situations in which control over one's body, perception, or surroundings appears partial, compromised or threatened. The exhibition departs from the visceral and the somatic: what the body registers before the mind has time to process it.
The space itself is implicated from the outset. Warmth generated by an installation conditions the body on entry, producing a sense of presence that precedes any visual encounter. A monumental sculpture suspended from overhead introduces a different kind of pressure: its scale and sharpness register as physical threat before they resolve into visual experience.
Moving through the space, the viewer encounters surfaces that suggest reflection without fully delivering it. Aluminium and steel absorb and withhold rather than return the gaze, producing a condition of partial self-recognition that mirrors the exhibition's broader argument: that the self, under certain conditions, becomes inaccessible to itself. Evoking bodily associations while testing the limits of scale and proximity, these works turn looking into a physical negotiation.
Curated by: Dinos Chatzirafailidis
Participating artists: Johan F. Karlsson, Dimitris Tampakis
Installation photography: Antonin Roure, Stathis Mamalakis (editing)
Visual identity: Katerina Milesi
Supported by: KONSTNÄRSNÄMNDEN Swedish Arts Grants Committee
DISPLAY | Vicolo al Leon d'Oro 4/A, Parma, Italy 43121
The space itself is implicated from the outset. Warmth generated by an installation conditions the body on entry, producing a sense of presence that precedes any visual encounter. A monumental sculpture suspended from overhead introduces a different kind of pressure: its scale and sharpness register as physical threat before they resolve into visual experience.
Moving through the space, the viewer encounters surfaces that suggest reflection without fully delivering it. Aluminium and steel absorb and withhold rather than return the gaze, producing a condition of partial self-recognition that mirrors the exhibition's broader argument: that the self, under certain conditions, becomes inaccessible to itself. Evoking bodily associations while testing the limits of scale and proximity, these works turn looking into a physical negotiation.
Curated by: Dinos Chatzirafailidis
Participating artists: Johan F. Karlsson, Dimitris Tampakis
Installation photography: Antonin Roure, Stathis Mamalakis (editing)
Visual identity: Katerina Milesi
Supported by: KONSTNÄRSNÄMNDEN Swedish Arts Grants Committee
DISPLAY | Vicolo al Leon d'Oro 4/A, Parma, Italy 43121