From 25 May to 13 July the first solo exhibition in Italy by the German artist Nina Könnemann, curated by Michele D’Aurizio, will be open to the public at the Fondazione Pastificio Cerere. Four video works will be on show that retrace her artistic output from the beginning of the last decade to the present day.
Könnemann explores moments of social interaction, focusing her gaze on each occasion on the micro-phenomena that take place on the margins of such events. The artist’s use of the hand-held camera allows her to react spontaneously to the movements of the crowd and present a first-hand account of the goings-on that she observes, revealing minimal, trivial and irrelevant acts that alter the conventional narrations of such happenings. The artist captures moments in which reality is laid bare, providing a glimpse of the subversive potential that sub- and countercultural events have always sought and that the media instead constantly manipulate and turn into spectacle. In this sense, Könnemann’s use of the video undermines its mass-media function: reality is documented with the intention of bearing witness to the self-generation of parallel realities.
