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The Parents Room

Diego Marcon
2021

A family gathers around a bed to sing a lament to their own deaths, accompanied by a blackbird.

About the artist:
Diego Marcon (b. 1985, Busto Arsizio, Italy) primarily focuses on moving image. His practice centres on the investigation of cinematic archetypes in a process combining theoretical and structural approaches to filmmaking, with the sentimental attitudes of popular movie genres. His works – spanning film, video and installation – often utilise a looped structure to articulate an emotional display that flirts with the pathetic aspects of popular entertainment; and simultaneously draws attention to the media itself. Throughout Marcon’s work, empathy and vulnerability are deployed with intentional ambiguity, such that the instrumental use of their forms and figures constitute a blurred morality. This ambiguity is viewed by Marcon first and foremost as a political weapon of defiance.

  • The Parents Room: Diego Marcon
  • Diego Marcon's Website
    • Credits:
    • Supported by the Directorate-General for Contemporary Creativity by the Italian Ministry of Culture under the Italian Council program (2019)

    • Produced by:
    • INCURVA; Fondazione Donnaregina per le arti contemporanee / museo Madre, Napoli; Primitive Film

    • In partnership with:
    • FIDLab – International Co-production Platform; Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen; BOZAR Centre for Fine Arts

    • Courtesy of:
    • Sadie Coles HQ, London

    • Production:
    • Jacqui Davies; Camilla Romeo

    • Original score:
    • Federico Chiari

    • Production & Prosthetics Design:
    • Lorenzo Cianchi

    • Music:
    • Laurence Crane

    • Cinematography:
    • Pierluigi Laffi

    • Animation & Compositing:
    • Diego Zuelli

    • Performers:
    • Massimiliano Balduzzi; Beatrice Giavarini; Huey Lockwood; Chiara Serangeli