I’m Here, But Not Entirely Yours / Niccolò de Napoli

Spotlight on the new project presented by PROGETTO LUDOVICO.

PROGETTO LUDOVICO returns to Milan with a solo exhibition by Niccolò de Napoli. Latex, leather, and PVC become symbols of a phenomenon, quitting, understood as a practice of resistance and subtle withdrawal from the alienating and performative dynamics imposed by the contemporary professional context and the logic of late capitalism.

Drawing on a careful analysis of early twenty-first-century social systems, British philosopher and cultural critic Mark Fisher described how the economic system defined within the contemporary historical context, late-modern capitalism, operates not only on productive structures, but also extends the logic of professional environments into the affective and imaginative dimensions of the individual. Within the condition he outlines, the productive system appears as the sole resolving agent, progressively shaping the perception of time as well as that of desire. The constant demand for engagement and availability produces a condition in which individual subjectivity becomes increasingly entangled in performative dynamics, while simultaneously revealing a growing tension within the workplace, a marginal space in which subjects operate within these dispositifs, developing forms of disengagement and partial withdrawal. Niccolò De Napoli’s project I’m here, but not entirely yours, produced by PROGETTO LUDOVICO and accompanied by a text by Camilla Previ, fits within this broader reflection, focusing precisely on the notion of quitting, understood as a contemporary practice of resistance and minimal detachment, poised between investment and distance. De Napoli works through an almost obsessive engagement with material research, primarily drawing on everyday objects that consistently undergo a reversal of meaning, a kind of loop that drives their recontextualisation. By reworking materials drawn from the reality that surrounds him, he develops a process through which to reconfigure reality itself, assigning shifting meanings that operate within a broader reflection on the relationships between individuals and their behavior within society. This approach leads him to focus on relational dynamics, which are sometimes echoed in his work through direct interaction with the audience.

I’m Here, But Not Entirely Yours / Niccolò de Napoli

Credits

Project by: Niccolò de Napoli / @niccolodenapoliserra
Presented by: PROGETTO LUDOVICO / @progetto_ludovico @perini_natali
Words : Edoardo Durante / @edo_durante
Editor: Maria Abramenko / @mariabramenko
Junior Editor: Annalisa Fabbrucci / @annalisa_fabbrucci

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