Jani Ruscica's Third Solo Show at Otto Zoo Explores Linguistic Migrations

Jani Ruscica (Savonlinna, 1978) presents his third solo exhibition at Otto Zoo in Milan, titled 'M for Mauve'. The show features photographic works derived from digital textures of Mount Rushmore in Second Life, a series of carved wooden tablets inscribed with a choreographic alphabet in progress, and a performance during the opening where a tap dancer performed to poems translated into Morse code. The artist investigates the relationship between interpretation and representation, deconstructing expectations and pre-established patterns through heterogeneous languages and techniques including video, photography, and sculpture. Words from poems are transformed into dance steps, digital pixels into photographs, and alphabet letters into anthropomorphic representations.