Chiara Dynys’s “Dual” exhibition is made up of three video installations, one sculpture and fifteen lenticular pictures.

The title derives from the ancient greek verbal form, which, aside from the singular and the plural forms, also included a particular declension to be used in the case of relations between two people, things or even situations.

So the number two is therefore the main theme, which rapidly evolves into the idea of “double”, and consequently into “disassociation” that is – almost ironically – closely connected to the idea of solitude. The lack of communication, the schizophrenic attitude, the obstinate immobility of respective positions are much more often to be found in bilateral relations, than in the state of being alone or in the middle of a crowd.

Furthermore this is visibly and symbolically more manifested in relations between objects than in those between people. Thus the parallel world of objects is the real protagonist of Chiara Dynys’s sculptures and lenticular pictures, whereas people are not even present. In the same way, “communicating vessels” which is the subject of the artist’s sculpture, are in fact “not communicating”.

Only in the video clip, where there is an imitation of Gregory Peck’s cinema version of “Moby Dick” recited in Italian as well as in English by the Neapolitan actor Roberto Mascia, the human posture and voice are the true protagonists, but what is rendered most blatantly is the difficult relationship with reality and the choice of an unreal mimicry not unlike the schizophrenic attitude mentioned above.

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