American Dream - Jane Ck Texas
2023
In her latest addition to American Dream, Marilisa Cosello structures performance and installation through the careful study and revisitation of Matèria Gallery space in Roma, adding to her ongoing investigation into overarching economic, political and cultural structures of contemporary society. Spurred by a dialogue initiated in the spring of 2022 with Noam Chomsky, renowned linguist, philosopher, historian and communication theorist, recognized as the founder of generative-transformational grammar, that grants Cosello the permission to use excerpts from his manifesto book Requiem for the American Dream: The 10 Principles of Wealth & Power (2017), a text that the artist unpacks and revisits within her practice, highlighting her multidisciplinary approach through the use of performance art, site specific interventions, video, sound and photography.
Cosello blends her ongoing two-dimensional text based work referencing the aesthetics of protest, with an elaborate performance ranging from 80's to the 2000 American pop culture mythology - Jane Fonda, Ck, Texas Line dance - set to further develop the central themes that influence the narratives shaping our understanding of wealth, power, and the pursuit of happiness. Moreover, her work prompts a crucial reflection on the underlying mechanisms that govern our contemporary world, while simultaneously challenging us to envision a future that allows for the possibility of new paradigms.