Public programme Woonhuis MRZB

The selected video works follow a series of alienated, doomed and schizo-characters drifting through suburban landscapes made of symbols emptied of their meanings, where the experience of life has been dissolved and replaced by icons. Expanded audio-visual collages, projections of larger collective processes and assemblages, they speak a poetic of residues, exhaustion and atrophies, articulating a capsule experience of the eeriness and decadence of the italian and global’s outskirts – commodified, emptied, sold or just abandoned– where dreams are made of nylon and the decaying banquet is finally served.

MRZB is an art group based between Amsterdam and Milano formed in 2014, run by Andrea Parenti, Désirée Nakouzi De Monte, Filippo Tocchi and Pietro Cortona. Their nomadic and collaborative practice questions the processuality of creation as a stacking of tensions and forces. MRZB draws on the marginal, the domestic, the discarded, the suburban as removed, psychedelic and hallucinatory cosmos to traverse the specters and residues of a centripetal and massified reality. Appropriating the formats of the spectacle and taking them adrift, MRZB has produced polyphonic assemblages, pathetic and exaggerated microcosms that incorporate and re-signify the detrita of contemporary culture.