NKONDI, 2025 is a project composed of a series of mining tools created from technological waste such as batteries, fragments of electronic boards, and cell phone casings. These elements bear witness to a process of exploitation that begins in the African subsoil and ends in our everyday devices. Coltan, a rare and indispensable mineral used… Continua a leggere NKONDI
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.
This project reproduces in scale a destroyed urban landscape. A suspended IV bag slowly releases a red liquid resembling blood. The progressive dripping physically erodes the model beneath, built with fragile materials such as sand and PVC. The intervention is part of a series dedicated to airstrikes carried out on Gaza, each titled after the official names of Israeli military operations. Every installation is visible only once. At the end, all that remains is a video document, presented in the following exhibition. PVC, sand, cement, synthetic blood pigment, programmed drip-release mechanism Site specific self-destructive installation Variable duration (from 72 to 120 hours) Disintegration becomes language. Blood functions as a device. The project vanishes to remain in memory.
FABIO WEIK 