Catherine Biocca's Surreal Installation at Frutta Gallery

Catherine Biocca (born 1984, Rome) presents an installation at Frutta Gallery in Rome featuring three stuffed animal heads bursting through wall holes, shattering a window that opens onto a Magritte-like sky. The broken glass serves as screens reflecting small bonsais, seemingly surprised by an incomprehensible abuse of power. The work deliberately mysterious and disturbing, depicts harmless, cheerful figures engaging in hidden violent fantasies born from atavistic frustrations. Through surreal, nearly indecipherable images, Biocca stages the ordinary, daily, and petty cruelty perpetuated by those who feel entitled to display arbitrary superiority. She condemns the pleasure derived from others' misfortunes, a insidious complacency that appears ineradicable, as if it were a foundational part of humanity itself. The review was written by Mattia Andres Lombardo.