I have been drawing monoscopes since 2008–09, perhaps earlier — I don’t quite remember — but I do recall they were already present in my solo exhibition Sinergie at Fabbrica Borroni in 2010. They are devices that interrupt rather than communicate, establishing a suspended space. They do not display content but its absence. Their technical function paradoxically becomes an autonomous image, capable of replacing the flow with the signal itself. In this shift, what was meant to be neutral transforms into language, into an act of power, imposing its own kind of televisual and communicative dictatorship. Today, those monoscopes have turned black like ruins. They no longer transmit test signals but instead absorb the noise of the world, like the broken communication emerging from the Gaza Strip — a fragmented, non-linear signal that speaks of absence and resistance. These are the most recent works from 2025: MONOSCOPIO, enamel and tar on aluminum.
FABIO WEIK 