
Ministry of Loneliness
- Publisher
- Humboldt Books
- Year
- 2023
- ISBN
- 979-12-80336-19-4
- Specifications
- Paperback with dustjacket, sewn binding
17 x 24 cm
168 pages
Colour
English, Italian
Edited by Chiara Nuzzi
Text by Vincenzo Estremo, Rebecca Moccia, Chiara Nuzzi
Co-published with Fondazione ICA Milano
Ministry of Loneliness reproduces and expands on the research that Rebecca Moccia presented on the occasion of the exhibition of the same name. Departing from the exploration of the Ministry of Loneliness – established in 2018 in the United Kingdom and replicated in 2021 in other countries such as Canada and Japan – the artist's work develops a reflection on the political and social structures that shape the emotional state of loneliness and its perception in contemporary society. In the project, which stems from a research trip unfolding between Italy, the United States, Japan and the United Kingdom, the phantasmal and pervasive shadow of isolation that permeates Western societies takes shape in a layered investigation extending to the very roots that trigger it: from the advancement of the techno-scientific order of modern life to the rise of liberal capitalism.
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