Filippo Berta's 'One by One' at Nomas Foundation in Rome
Filippo Berta (born 1977 in Treviglio) presents 'One by One' at Nomas Foundation in Rome, a video installation exploring geopolitical marginalization and social tensions fueled by separation barriers. The work consists of five video projections that create a visual oxymoron about being inside or outside borders. Barbed wire serves as the narrative iconography across footage shot in Mexico, the United States, South Korea, and Eastern Europe. The ritualistic, almost liturgical drama of counting the fence spikes one by one becomes a multilingual murmur in an anachronistic present. Berta replaces Michelangelo's discontinuity between the infinite and finite, God and Adam, with a crystallized proximity in the persistent rhetoric of limits.
Key facts
- Filippo Berta was born in 1977 in Treviglio.
- The exhibition is titled 'One by One'.
- It is held at Nomas Foundation in Rome.
- The work comprises five video installations.
- Footage was shot in Mexico, USA, South Korea, and Eastern Europe.
- Barbed wire is the central iconography.
- The work references Calvino's quote about walls.
- The piece evokes Michelangelo's fresco of God and Adam.
Entities
Artists
- Filippo Berta
Institutions
- Nomas Foundation
- Artribune
Locations
- Treviglio
- Italy
- Rome
- Mexico
- United States
- South Korea
- Eastern Europe