Jonathan VanDyke's How to Operate in a Dark Room at Unosunove Roma

American artist Jonathan VanDyke presents How to Operate in a Dark Room at Unosunove gallery in Rome, marking a departure from his previous exhibitions where wooden structures guided viewers. The new installation frees the audience, with cubic structures made of innocent pipes filling the space and framing the works. These structures highlight the geometric patterns of dyed fabrics—sometimes symmetrical, sometimes not—aiming for a well-calibrated chromatic juxtaposition. On the reverse, colors become more vivid and embroidery appears, referencing the artist's intimate family past alongside news images from a photographic archive built over years, depicting American reality with migrants left at the border and ghettoized communities. An uneasy existence moves from private to collective, manifesting with geometric rigor on the front and a stream of consciousness on the back, accompanied by black-and-white photographs inspired by Michelangelo Antonioni's film L'Eclisse.