Lucrezia Longobardi's 'Sulla dimensione dello spazio esistenziale #2' Explores Sleep as Escape

Lucrezia Longobardi, born in 1991 in the province of Naples, presents the seventh installment of her series 'Sulla dimensione dello spazio esistenziale #2' on Artribune. The text examines the instability of existential space through artworks by Roberto Cuoghi and Flavio Favelli. Cuoghi's 2002 video 'Foolish Things' creates a hypnotic loop of dawn and dusk, blurring reality and perception. Favelli's 2011 series 'Abissi' features a world map submerged under blue patches, questioning known references. Longobardi describes sleeping during the exhibition opening in a bed set up in the apartment, delegating hospitality to a friend who offered coffee to visitors. She frames sleep as a shared condition of escape from the 'dictatorship of performance,' referencing a dialogue from Renato De Maria's 2002 film 'Paz!'.