Ho fatto tardi - Exhibition by Guido Segni

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HO FATTO TARDI
curated by Stefano Monti
The exhibition will be open to the public on Saturday 31 January from 5pm. The artist will be present. Critical text in the gallery.

SMDOT/Contemporary Art is delighted to finally present the new solo exhibition by artist Guido Segni entitled HO FATTO TARDI (I WAS LATE). The artist himself states that the title is not a poetic or provocative statement: it is a simple, almost technical observation. It concerns a time, not in time, postponed, dilated, perhaps lost, in the finalisation of a series of works begun between 2020 and the end of 2025.
This interval is not neutral: it coincides with the conclusion of his five-year project dedicated to laziness, Demand full laziness (2018–2023), but above all with the widespread and persistent wave of digital fatigue that exploded during the pandemic. Between lockdowns, forced hyper-connectivity and continuous exposure to screens, a short circuit has been created between tools and desire, between possibility and will. During that time, some things continued to be generated, but without urgency or destination, leaving materials and ideas to settle in a state of suspension, inside a series of folders on his computer desktop. The silent but laborious accumulation of these works and their formalisation, now outside the realm of “hype” or “timeliness”, is not an exercise in nostalgia, nor is it a criticism of the speed of technological innovation. Their aim is to reflect on the friction between the biological body and the technological body, a friction which, as such, is a force of resistance that opposes movement, producing energy dispersion in the form of heat, wear and tear, and slowdown. It is what prevents perfect flow, but at the same time makes it possible to control movement itself. Friction is also discomfort, friction, partial incompatibility, but also a condition of reality: without friction there is no grip, no orientation, no concrete experience.The encounter between the biological body and the technological body is neither a harmonious fusion nor a simple opposition. Rather, it is an area of continuous friction: the biological body introduces slowness, error, resistance; the technological body imposes acceleration, optimisation, standardisation. In friction, new forms of subjectivity, new practices of the body, new ethics of technological responsibility emerge. Friction, therefore, is not a defect in the relationship, like fatigue or delay, but its critical and productive condition. A space to inhabit, not to eliminate.

opening hours: Tuesday to Saturday 10am–1pm | 4pm–7pm

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