THERE IS NO RIGHT DIRECTION
The work plays on the bitter irony of a choice that is not a choice at all. The right hand of a woman, or perhaps of a man, holding a weapon aimed at herself stages a tragicomic struggle between free will and a destiny already sealed. The cruel irony of war, where one is
forced to choose between different forms of personal destruction. ‘There is no right direction’ is a sarcastic statement in a world where every road seems to lead to the same end: one form or another of self-destruction. In the context of war, the image subverts the heroic narrative. It strips the situation of any nobility, challenging the romantic idea of sacrifice and exposing the stark reality of decisions that offer no salvation, only perpetual self-destruction. The monochrome backdrop enhances the absurdity of a choice with no real options, like a joke told endlessly, without a laugh.
Filippo Moroni, born in Castiglione Del Lago in 1996, lives and works in Milan. After graduating in Design, he continued his education at the Pietro Vannucci Academy of Fine Arts in Perugia. In 2022, he completed his studies at the Brera Academy of Fine Arts in Milan. Over the years he has exhibited in private and public spaces in Italy and abroad.
Moroni’s work concedes itself and is destined for others in the full totality of form and content, but at the same time remains partially granitic and enigmatic. It annoys the ambitious, and gratifies the impeded, both thus forced into a vis à vis with themselves. Moreover, almost as if exercising an act of violence, the artist disappears behind his direction, sitting in the audience and pushing the actor to the extremes of possible and impossible. With these guidelines, his work investigates the relationship between reality and appearance in society, irony and tragedy, and excess and scarcity. Indeed, his works imbued with carnal allusions display an ambiguously opulent character, something voluptuous and disturbing that saturates the viewer’s perception.
