Matteo Vettorello's Empathy Machine at Edicola Radetzky

Matteo Vettorello (Venice, 1986) presents his first solo show at Edicola Radetzky in Milan, running until October 7. The exhibition features an interactive sculpture and a series of mixed-media sketches. The central work, 'Autoindicatore di pressione simpatica', is a machine that uses a biometric system to measure and process the heartbeats of two users, quantifying their supposed level of empathy. According to curator Irene Sofia Comi, the device relates the cardiac rhythms of two individuals, demonstrating their harmony through a puff of air, a pneuma that constitutes the world, nature, and man, even in his most intimate part, the psyche.