COSTANZA CANDELORO
U
#Retrofuture
Costanza Candeloro joins the RETROFUTURE section, the collection of works by young Italian artists growing organically with time.

Costanza Candeloro, U, 2020. Drawings, display glass case, iron base. Courtesy the artist. On the walls: Giovanna Silva, Catabasi, 2020. Print on pvc. Courtesy the artist. MACRO 2021. Ph. Agnese Bedini and Melania Dalle Grave, DSL Studio.
U (2020) by Costanza Candeloro is a glass display case with which the artist points to the sinister side of processes of conservation, namely the side connected with an obsessive desire for possession.
There is a sinister aspect to the existence of a cultural milieu, a form of alienation that originates in a simple, yet total, principle of possession imposed on bio-psychic processes by ‘dedicated infrastructures’. This procedure concerns first and foremost the methods of preservation and transmission of the resources in question (cultural): it is a specific ventilation duct that regulates the temperature of an environment, a glass partition guaranteed against breakage, a medium defended by a universally imposed and accepted convention, or simply an all too circumscribed network of frequentations. Devices that guard and inform generate an acceptable detention if applied to knowledge, a deprivation if intended with respect to the operations and ways in which living beings act in the environment.
COSTANZA CANDELORO (Bologna, 1990) lives in Italy and Switzerland, working as a writer and visual artist. Her most recent projects include: …of Angeles & Apocalypse, Derek Jarman Complex, Istituto Svizzero, Milan (2020), and Life-Edit at Fondazione Prada, Milan (2020). She has participated in group shows, including: H or the audience, FriArt, Kusthalle Fribourg (2020); 16th Rome Art Quadriennale, Palazzo delle Esposizioni,Rome (2016); Erba Voglio, Wallriss, Fribourg (2015); Pocari Sweats, Truth and Consequences, Geneva (2014). She is part of the project Licit Illicit Bookshop, a mobile bookshop dedicated to Radicalism & Rarities, and is the co-founder of the project Idioletta which deals with the production and spread of experimental literature.