Mirko Canesi

Working with sculptures and installations the themes of my research are anthropocentrism, ecology and reality, pursuing the utopian idea of de-powering humans.
 I decided to limit my field of action to pre-existent elements, creating a strict framework within which to operate: I view the work as a consequence of pre-defined mechanical processes. Any kind of empathic reaction forms part of the cognitive balancing between the spectator and the project.

I select the objects that interest me as raw materials from which to create the work, doing away with what is conventionally defined as “creativity”: by leveling the existent on a horizontal plane structured in a non-hierarchical and indefinite fashion, drawing on a neutral outlook like a primitive creature taken from a video-gaming universe, the single elements that make up reality melt into one another. By losing their historical layering, even the ideas may be seen as raw materials, generating autonomous sensations through their overlapping.

I’m interested in the idea of survival and of world-building fantasy that puts together fictional universes by plying his- torical periods to form fully self-contained worlds. I draw on forms of creativity made available by the cultural indus- tries among others, which I elaborate by adopting crafts practices from the decorative tradition.