Artissima 2023, Hater, by Rebecca Russo
Open Call for Artists and Show
Cocktail Bar by Due On The Road
Exibart, L’arte di combattere l’odio, by Elisabetta Chiono
Collective, Hater, by Alessandra Bruni
Quid Magazine, Hater, by Camilla Del Pero
Juliet Art Magazine, Esplorando i confini dell’amore e dell’odio, by Carlotta Thione
Canale Arte, Hater, by Paola Stroppiana
Odi et Amo. Hate and love: opposite units of a single feeling.
Life includes Eros and Thanatos, Love and Hate, the drive of Life and that of Death. The line that separates Love and Hate, Libido and Destrudo is extremely thin. We live in a violent world, in which respect, kindness and gratitude seem to be rare values. We experience envy and aggression daily, in reality and on the web. Violence against women, against children is intensifying, the physical and psychological violation of human rights is the order of the day. The Videoinsight® Foundation has as its mission the Prevention and Treatment of Psychophysical Well-being through Contemporary Art. On the occasion of Artissima 2023, it proposes the Group Exhibition “HATER”, curated by Rebecca Russo, philanthropist, collector, psychotherapist, President of the Videoinsight® Foundation. The Exhibition includes the Finalist Works in the second selection of the Open Call “Hater” launched in February 2023 and the assignment of the Videoinsight® Award, now in its 11th Edition. These are the names of the participating Artists: Marco Abrate (Rebor), Sofia Amore, Raffaella Baldassarre, Pasquale Battaglia, Savina Capecci, Gianluca Capozzi, Marialucia Ciraci, Antonia Colella, Alessandro Dentico, Diego Dominici, Angelo Farina, Pietro Farina, Damiano Fasso, Lorenzo Gnata, Selena Leardini, Simone Marini, Roberto Rossacci, Milena Sgambato, Paolo Treni, Roberta Toscano, Marta Scavone, Luca Zarattini. The Exhibition was created to raise public awareness on the issue of “Haters”, people who use social networks to express verbal violence or to incite hatred towards someone or something.
Hidden under nicknames, “Haters” poison communications with comments marked by obsessive, unmotivated, humiliating destructiveness. The loss of control, of identity, selfishness, inhumanity have always existed, the media have amplified the phenomenon. The constant and repeated attitude of intolerance, contempt, denigration, sadism and provocation, causes frustration, discomfort, depression, pain, desperation in the victims. Cyberbullying is the online manifestation of a broader phenomenon known as bullying. The latter is characterized by violent and intimidating actions carried out by a bully, or a group of bullies, on a victim. The actions may involve verbal harassment, physical aggression, persecution. Today, technology allows bullies to infiltrate the homes of victims, to materialize at any moment of their lives, persecuting them with offensive messages, images, videos sent via smartphone or published on websites via the Internet. Cyberbullying defines a set of aggressive and intentional actions, by a single person or a group, carried out using electronic tools (sms, photos, videos, emails, chat rooms, instant messaging, websites, phone calls), whose aim is to cause harm to a victim unable to defend themselves.
The “Hater” Exhibition is aimed at the Prevention of cyberbullying, to support victims damaged by bullying, by unheard-of wickedness, by prevarication, by emotional abuse.
The awareness stimulated by the interaction with the selected Works of Art focused on the theme – the Videoinsight® experience proposed to the public – is the first step towards Prevention, towards Treatment. The Exhibition will be inaugurated on November 3, 2023 from 7:00 pm to 10:00 pm, at the Videoinsight® Center in via Bonsignore 7 in Turin. It will last until January 7, 2023.
