SIMONE CUPELLO   

​ENTORNOS  (surrounding areas)

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Given the ban on photographing Michelangelo’s David at the Galleria dell’Accademia, the artist chooses to record audio from the public gathered around the statue. From these recordings—compiled in the video Coberto (2016)—various investigations into visuality emerge, in which the artist takes as a premise the impenetrability of the bundles of photographs in her collection: to see materially, to symbolically replace, to view what only the image can shows, to make it breathe…