Exhibition · Banquet gallery · Milano
Carlo Ferraris Michael Fliri* Mauro Folci Norma Jeane Iva Kontic Bruno Muzzolini Emilija Skarnulyte Banquet is pleased to present its first in-gallery video screening, whose program features video artworks by, in order: Mauro Folci, Emilija Skarnulyte, Bruno Muzzolini, Iva Kontić, Michael Fliri, Carlo Ferraris, Norma Jeane. The screening runs twice daily, Thursday through Saturday, and by appointment. Counterclockwise HD video, 1'36" ', 2010 Director of Photography: Corrado Serri, Gaffer: Emanuele Bernabei, Tamer: Redy Montigo, Lion: Simba, with the participation of the Montigo circus family The chandelier hangs in the street like a misplaced domestic relic, both familiar and strangely alien. Its electric glow suggests order, refinement, and controlled illumination, yet in this setting it becomes theatrical and unsettling. The megaphone introduces a different kind of power—one that projects outward, demands attention, and occupies public space through sound. Together, these objects create a tension between intimacy and authority, between private ritual and public declaration. What normally belongs indoors is displaced into the urban environment, where its meaning begins to shift. The chandelier no longer offers comfort; it becomes a spectacle, an intrusion, a signal without clear instruction. The megaphone suggests communication, but also command, amplification, and the possibility of noise overpowering meaning. By pairing these symbols, the work examines how systems of control make themselves visible and audible in everyday life. Electric light here is not guidance, but a manufactured presence-steady, artificial, and emotionally distant. The piece asks how familiar technologies become strange when removed from their expected context. It explores the moment when ordinary objects begin to feel foreign, even threatening, within the city. Born in 1960 in Romagnano Sesia, Carlo Ferraris lives and works in New York, where he has developed a practice that draws from…