Rebecca Moccia. Somewhere in the Room: exhibition visit with the Artist. The exhibition presents a selection of Rebecca Moccia's works, focusing on the Ministry of Loneliness, a research-based project that explores loneliness and its politicisation in contemporary society. Accompanying this series are Loneliness Scales, ceramic works conceived for the solo exhibition at the ICA Foundation in Milan in 2023. The non-fiction film Ministries of Loneliness (presented at the prestigious International Short Film Festival Oberhausen and winner of the ArteVisione prize at Careof Milan, 2023), together with the new site-specific installation How Often Do You Feel Heard and the large tapestry A Body That Sets On Fire, made in collaboration with Giovanni Bonotto and winner of the A Collection prize at ArtVerona2022, are also exhibited.
For the artist, places and moments carry with them particular atmospheres and spatialised emotions that do not belong to a subject. These emotions come from outside, from that environment and its atmosphere. Starting from this assumption, Moccia's research on Solitude also focused on how this emotional state and its perception in contemporary society is shaped by the political and social structures in which we live. Contrary to common opinion and pandemic rhetoric, in Rebecca Moccia's research, loneliness emerges not as a psychological problem of the individual, but as a shared and collective feeling that permeates western societies.