Marcella Vanzo Studio

Marcella Vanzo Studio

Lovesong

2001
video projection (colour, sound, 4 min)
Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin, Italy, 2002

Marcella Vanzo creates videos in which the unexpected editing of images and music subverts platitudes and social customs. In Lovesong, through the slowed-down editing of brief greco-roman wrestling bouts and the sweet tone of a love song, an ancien brutal and aggressive sport is transformed into a prolonged love embrace, ironically evoking macho stereotypes.  

Ilaria Bonacossa