Tangled Depictions

About

Michele Gabriele will explore and consider how the representation of ideas and events is portrayed nowadays, looking at how the information is used in order to spread a complex and multiple knowledge of the different systems at the roots of nowadays knowledge-intensive capitalism.

 With his series “It’s always so hard to admit that things are different than what we had believe at first sight” (2018-ongoing series), the artist wants to highlight, in a straight-forward and intimate way, how difficult it is to accept happenings/ideas/objects/beings for what they are, as well as the human tendency to not embrace their true meaning.

 Michele Gabriele looks at these circumstances by analysing the representation of extinct beings such as dinosaurs in mainstream culture, and the way they are depicted in movies like Jurassic Park. It has been discovered that these creatures are more similar to chickens and poultry in general, rather than those scary, yet beautiful beings a generation built their dreams and fears on.

 To accentuate this conflict, the sculptures are half finished, with two parts differing from one another. With this unfinished side remaining hidden at first, he exaggerates this co-existence of delusion and misunderstanding in human behaviour.

 With these interventions, the artist is trying to show how these tense representations of different aspects of today’s life are embedded in human visions of the contemporary and how difficult it is to escape it.