full project here This piece has been shown at: 06/16 – XXI Triennale International Exhibition, Call Over35 – Milano, IT (Currently Showing) 05/16 CHI2016 Art Exhibition – San Jose, CA 09/15 – “Except/0n”  St. James Hatcham Building – London,UK Press Selection: Wired US – Wired JP – Prosthetic Knowledge – The Creators Project This work explores the possibilities of empathy as a meta-language through the most powerful physical interface which is our face. The face is a part of ourselves which is not visible to us without the use of a mirror or an external tool (photography, video, etc.). Dedicated entirely to the “other”, it becomes our window to the world and the world’s window to ourselves. I asked 8 people to share a personal episode of their lives which they could somehow reconnect to one of the 6 basic emotions (P.Ekman) anger, fear, sadness, joy, disgust, surprise. Everyone of them picked up a very diverse subject and I asked them to tell me that story in their original language. By doing this I am trying to disconnect the reason linked to the language, in favour of a more fluid emotional communication. My challenge with this work is inducing in the viewer a sort of ‘identity displacement’, which reminds the phenomenon […]