Ryan Trecartin and Lizzie Fitch's 'Whether Line' at Fondazione Prada

Ryan Trecartin and Lizzie Fitch's exhibition 'Whether Line' at Fondazione Prada in Milan transforms the space into a claustrophobic, reversed world. Visitors navigate a queue-barrier atrium and a metal mesh tunnel before reaching the main hall, which features an inverted reconstruction of the artists' Ohio home. The exhibition centers on themes of reversal and territory, with barriers and boundaries as key motifs. Trecartin and Fitch, who met at Rhode Island School of Design over fifteen years ago, moved from Los Angeles to rural Ohio in 2016 for this project, challenging the myth of nature as refuge. The video 'Plot Front' projects in a room with rocking chairs, presenting an anti-narrative, dreamlike overload of aesthetics and identities. Trecartin's character Neighbour Girl embodies a monstrous, familiar-stranger figure questioning concepts of property, state, and community. A four-channel video 'Property Bath' with Rhett LaRue immerses viewers in Ohio's seasonal landscape, haunted by the Neighbour Girl and her digital double. A viewing tower offers a nonexistent panorama, disappointing expectations. Unlike previous works, the installation here emanates from the video itself, like a horror movie spell, making the house a haunted one. The exhibition runs at Fondazione Prada.