The 80s and 90s – while the AIDS crisis was ravaging the queer community – were the decades that saw the rise of what Sarah Schulman refers to as the gentrification of AIDS. As people were dying, entire neighborhoods were emptied out, the owners’ belongings thrown out in the street, leaving their apartments empty and without heirs, ready to be put back on the market for wealthier and healthier tenants. A Week’s Notice is an ode to the queer architecture and its anti-normativity, an attempt to reclaim that public and domestic space that has been obliterated by the virus and the “progress”. The triptych of videos displays twenty-five miniatures, modelled after movie architectures, from Buster Keaton’s and The Wizard of Oz to low-budget TV series and B-movies, from well-known buildings by Mies van der Rohe and Le Corbusier to anonymous corridors, public toilets and studio-apartments the artist lived in. Emptied from any human presence, the miniatures move, implode, levitate, tremble, fly, open and close, turn on and off, in a clumsy repertoire of domestic accidents.
Video and sound installation, three video channels 4:3, color, sound, loop,
one audio channel, variable dimension
A Week’s Notice, 2020
video and sound installation, three videos (20’ 15’’, 19’ 32’’, 20’ 35’’, 4:3, rare projection,
sound, color, loop),
one audio track (29’ 01’’, stereo),
The work has been made with the support of Fondazione MAXXI – Museo nazionale delle
arti del XXI secolo, Rome and BVLGARI
video still
A Week’s Notice, 2020
video and sound installation, three videos (20’ 15’’, 19’ 32’’, 20’ 35’’, 4:3, rare projection,
sound, color, loop),
one audio track (29’ 01’’, stereo),
The work has been made with the support of Fondazione MAXXI – Museo nazionale delle
arti del XXI secolo, Rome and BVLGARI
video still
A Week’s Notice, 2020
video and sound installation, three videos (20’ 15’’, 19’ 32’’, 20’ 35’’, 4:3, rare projection,
sound, color, loop),
one audio track (29’ 01’’, stereo),
The work has been made with the support of Fondazione MAXXI – Museo nazionale delle
arti del XXI secolo, Rome and BVLGARI
installation view at MAXXI, Rome,
ph. Giorgio Benni
A Week’s Notice, 2020
video and sound installation, three videos (20’ 15’’, 19’ 32’’, 20’ 35’’, 4:3, rare projection,
sound, color, loop),
one audio track (29’ 01’’, stereo),
The work has been made with the support of Fondazione MAXXI – Museo nazionale delle
arti del XXI secolo, Rome and BVLGARI
installation view at MAXXI, Rome. ph. Giorgio Benni
A Week’s Notice, 2020
video and sound installation, three videos (20’ 15’’, 19’ 32’’, 20’ 35’’, 4:3, rare projection,
sound, color, loop),
one audio track (29’ 01’’, stereo),
The work has been made with the support of Fondazione MAXXI – Museo nazionale delle
arti del XXI secolo, Rome and BVLGARI
installation view at MAXXI, Rome,. ph. Giorgio Benni