Anaïs Touchot / Francesco Finizio "Crystals"

Anaïs Touchot, Here, Farm Farm looks like a small, cheerful, authentic farm, but behind the décor lies a voracious, globalized, opaque industry. The fields produce Capri Sun rather than fruit, and the painted facades evoke local, small-scale agriculture, while masking systems of extraction, overproduction and dependency. Farm Farm thus composes a world where the artifice of childhood meets that of capitalism: a seductive decor that seeks to make us forget what it really produces. I think this is also what brings my work closer to Francesco's: this way of constructing meaning through juxtaposition, fragments and uneven language. Francesco Finizio, There is no story, I work from the middle, fatally unaware of what was the beginning and what will be the end. "I am a middleman. Images crystallize in contact with beings, entities and events, in the course of peregrinations. They appear on the ground. Paintings? Carpets? Images to practice...