Riccardo Benassi and Chemutai Ng’ok Double Exhibition at Fondazione ICA Milan

Fondazione ICA in Milan hosts a double exhibition featuring Riccardo Benassi and Chemutai Ng’ok, curated by Alberto Salvadori and Chiara Nuzzi respectively. Benassi’s installation 'Morestalgia' (2019) consists of a curtain of thousands of LED lights with an audio track, originally installed at Bologna station, now recontextualized to enhance domesticity. The work displays flowing text and moving images, including philosophical quotes, full moons, bird flights, and performances by the Jalisse, inviting viewers to traverse a threshold mimicking psychic energy currents. A video in an adjacent space shows a robot painter with autonomous creative discretion. Ng’ok presents 'An impression that may possibly last forever,' her first exhibition in Italy, exploring psychological dynamics and power in human interactions through paintings and drawings with fibrous, liquid forms that aggregate into anthropomorphic shapes, cocoons, and human entomologies on the verge of unraveling.