Lemon In My Eyes – Tales of lo-res feelings, crystal flowers and Baroque futures

‘Lemon In My Eyes – Tales of lo-res feelings, crystal flowers and Baroque futures’ is a project born in 2017 with the aim of exploring the notion of kitsch and embracing decoration as a speculative tool for critical thinking. The partnership with a local manufacture has led to a radical reinterpretation of the antique Venetian mirror, diverting its traditional meaning to be placed within a contemporary frame. The show presents a series of sculptural pieces where the narrative adopts new visual languages to reflect upon feelings in the Internet age, emotional objects and decorative exuberance as therapeutic element. The silver-plated surfaces become canvas for the extensive work of the master artisan who minutely reproduced the detailed drawings solely with a glass engraving lathe. Instead of elegant deities celebrating the climax of earthly and spiritual beauty, the decorations depict sexy manga girls that cynically comment in their cartoon bubbles on stories of a contradictory society with the brevity of a tweet. The new Venetian mirrors invite the observers to be reflected among visual opulence and sarcasm, comforted by a Baroque nostalgia and at the same time faced by a subtile awareness about a constrictive and weakening system.