UNA DECADE NELLA TANA: A NUMB NEED, A FLESH FLICKER 11 Oct 2023 - 25 Nov 2023, Baleno International, Roma.

Una Decade nella Tana: a Numb Need, a Flesh Flicker is a new body of work presented by MRZB at Baleno International for their first solo exhibition with the gallery.
Conceived as an experimental collage of silver gelatin photography, video, performance, sculpture, writing, the work consists of a two channel video installation, I Killed My Father, I Ate Human Flesh, I Quiver With Joy (Kaspar’s Lunatic Remedies), and a photographic diptych, Le Derive di Kaspar (I Tremolii della Carne, 88 Vegas).
I Killed My Father, I Ate Human Flesh, I Quiver With Joy (Kaspar’s Lunatic Remedies), follows the dérive of Kaspar, between the continuous non-landscape of the pianura lombardo padana and a series of enclosed, marginal, liminal and abandoned spaces. The music, arranged by the artist and composer Rin Suemitsu is performed by artists Ivan Cheng and Jette Loona Hermanis.
In Le Derive di Kaspar (I Tremolii della Carne, 88 Vegas) gelatin silver print on baryta paper are a backdrop to sculptural inserts. These works function as ghostly filmic traces, part of the suspended narrative the video work hints, memento mori, accumulation of insignias of death and decay, death by overload. In Le Derive di Kaspar (88 Vegas) is presented an abandoned buffet, middle-class fetish, staged, emptied and left to itself, in Le Derive di Kaspar (I Tremolii della Carne) close-ups of the character stand in the foreground accompanied by intimate objects, dresses and body parts, hairs, hand and arms, a powdered face.
Una Decade nella Tana: a Numb Need, a Flash Flicker flirts with genre cinema, pulp, horror, gothic, amplifying the dramatic fragmentary grotesque story of the character in a slapstick alternating interior monologues and mortiferous litanies, glam and gothic, photographic decompositions, stagings, scenes studies, diaristic writings, poetic and literary appropriations.

I Killed My Father, I Ate Human Flesh, I Quiver With Joy (Kaspar’s Lunatic Remedies) 2023, two-channel video 12’55". Le Derive di Kaspar (I Tremolii della Carne) 2023, tape, n.39 heel shoe, mannequin hand, section of mannequin’s face, glasses, make-up, hair extensions, synthetic eyelashes, collage on gelatin silver print. 192x98 cm Le Derive di Kaspar (88 Vegas) 2023,tape, steel forks,Camel light cigarette butt, red lipstick, hair extensions, mannequin hand, make-up, n.36 heel shoe, collage on gelatin silver print. 192x98 cm CRYSTAL (carnival of misplaced emotions) 2023, Polyester resin, glass fiber, steel, iron, latex, make-up, hairs, synthetic eyelashes, glasses. 95x30x20 cm I Killed My Father, I Ate Human Flesh, I Quiver With Joy (Kaspar’s Lunatic Remedies) 2023, two-channel video 12’55". Anna’s Grande Bouffe 2023, kitchen knife, collage on gelatin silver print. 90x50 cm