Time Without End, Masbedo, 2021

"Time Without End" is a site-specific work created by MASBEDO (Nicolò Massazza and lacopo Bedogni) as part of the "Word of the Year 2021: Waiting" project.

The exhibition project was curated by the students of the second year of the Master of Arts, Valorization and Market Degree Program, belonging to the Faculty of Arts and Tourism, and was inaugurated in July 2021

"Time Without End" is a structure located on campus similar to a bus stop shelter, but with a large vertical screen. Instead of displaying advertising messages, the screen transmits a kaleidoscope of images controlled remotely by the artists, who change its editing and content each month, giving new life to the work from time to time: a public "video sculpture" embedded in the open space of the campus, engaging all viewers in a collective experience of waiting.

In the work, the image of Gene Tierney in "Leave Her to Heaven" (1945) is superimposed on the close-up image of Toshiro Mifune in "Drunken Angel" (1948). In this way, Michelangelo Antonioni meets Ingmar Bergman, while Sam Mendes' "American Beauty" (1999) dialogues with Mario Baffico's "No Man's Land" (1939). Flipped, recolored, transformed, accelerated, distorted and looped repeated images overlap on different levels, just like on a smartphone or camera screen.

In recent years, Massazza and Bedogni, together MASBEDO, have directed their investigation toward developing a stringent dialogue with the world of cinema with the intention of investigating technological humanism and the innermost aspects of humanity.