Senza titolo n. 51

Senza titolo n. 51

Installation, Political / Social, Various materials, 8x11cm
This work is made of 136 receipts from the automated banking. In the description of every receipt it is written a verse from the seventeenth canto of Dante’s Inferno of the Divine Comedy. Every deposit correspond to a Dante’s verse. The third circle of the Inferno is narrated in the seventeenth canto of the Inferno, it is where Geryon dwells, it is an image of fraud. This is the place of the violent against God, the usurers, that is those people who make profit from money itself (according to the Medieval definition, all bankers).
This work pretends to make Dante’s piece of art objective and, at the same time to alienate oneself by looking at the printed receipts, as a way of criticism of the bank system in modern society.

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