Installation

”GOD CHOSE YOU” (2024)

by Swedish Girls & Vittorio Valigi.

‍The installation encapsulates the profound isolation and tense anticipation that permeate a hospital’s waiting room. It conveys the emotional weight of standing on the precipice of the unknown, dreading the incumbent judgment of the flesh. The laser-etched quote “GOD CHOSE YOU” on the seats are the actual words said by a medical psychotherapist to Vittorio, an insensitive and empty offer of comfort disguising a lure into religion. The phrase speaks not only to the clinical detachment of medicine, but also to the attempt to provide solace or meaning through the framework of spirituality, suggesting that in the face of suffering, the language of the body might intersect with the language of faith.

“FLESH AND METAL, A Prosthetic Decade”

Exhibited and Curated by Vittorio Valigi at @display.spazio

‍The exhibition is an homage to the life-changing process of overcoming trauma, offering a moment to reflect and raise awareness on invisible disabilities while presenting an utterly intimate display of beauty and terror.

A fundraising initiative has been launched to support the scientific research department at Meyer Children’s Hospital in its vital work to combat and defeat oncological diseases.

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