RELAX
chiarenza &
hauser & co

"Our meeting point with the protagonists is the image. What kind of images do they use in their publications or in their work? How do they talk about it? (...) Artists are used to quote texts (theories, surveys, literature...). Now here we reverse the situation in a way and ask the protagonists to talk about the images they quote or refer to in their own publications. We usually choose no more than 5 images. The images are chosen according to the project in which we show the video (which is always part of an installation). In 2012, at documenta13 in Kassel, we discovered a small booklet by Silvia Federici which contained a single image: the reproduction of a painting on the cover. We decided to start this discussion with her on this image (...)". RELAX 2015

Since then, and especially in the last videos, we have slightly changed our approach: starting from the relationship of the protagonists to the images, we orient the choice more and more on the questions that these images evoke.