Costanza Candeloro
A Bitter Tears Phone Call
January – March 2023

EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW

“The network of meanings gathered through sign and literary investigation becomes the inorganic, fragmented body of cross-media works.  Sculptures, videos and drawings are produced through a further – displaced – meta-literary plasticity.” Costanza Candeloro

La Boulangerie! is delighted to open its doors with a presentation display of A Bitter Tears Phone Call, a work by Costanza Candeloro. The work relates to a story about borders where fictions and realities collapse throughout the struggles of a young person. A dream, a souvenir that a woman is telling on the phone to an unknown person. Inspired by “The bitter tears of Petra Von Kant” by R. W. Fassbinder, it imagines a paranoid person, closed into a room, who has created her realities through telephonic narrations.

Costanza Candeloro (Bologna, 1990) works between Italy and Switzerland. She graduated at HEAD, Haute école d’art et de design of Geneva. She employs writing as a generative element and research subject. Using deconstruction as a tool of enquiry, texts newly written or appropriated are transformed into words, signs and symbols and then declined in the form of sculptures, installations and performances, evolving into a continuous process of formation. Through a praxis of intuitive cognitive assimilation, aimed at making the original content disappear, Candeloro favours compositional elements and gestures along with different types of representation, crafted in a unique artistic approach. Along with them, fears, gender constructs, issues of care and educational bias emerge, surprising in terms of their affective and intimate content. Embracing material and formal ambiguity, whilst functionalizing aesthetic choices, Candeloro playfully blurs her sources, calling on new forms of subjectivity to emerge.