Federico Lupo

Born in Palermo in 1984. Lives in Palermo.

Federico Lupo's installations and videos stage fragments of memory filtered through suggestions from literary and film sources. They are works in which the visual component is often indissolubly associated to its own sound track, with particular attention devoted to the relationship between ‘solid' of listening and the void of silence. Old toys, family relics, and recycled materials provide the elements through which the artist narrates the loss of innocence, offering an unfocused and sometimes distorted view of a personal memory that can become collective. The videos are accompanied by a disquieting sound track, which gives childhood memories an almost threatening tone. The objects staged in the installations are presented as scattered traces of history that is now part of the past, but still conserves a strongly ambiguous and enigmatic connotation. (A.T.)