Sembra facile

The installation Sembra facile (It Looks Easy) tackles the contradictions of today’s consumerism and the excessive trade in food products. The laid table, with every element fixed beneath the top instead of on it, symbolises the apparent ease with which we can now have any good at our disposal, especially food, where the variety and abundance of supermarkets seem a given.

Behind this façade of simplicity, however, lies the other side of the coin: the waste of raw materials, the squandering of resources and the fact that not everyone can truly benefit from this abundance.

The work invites us to reflect on how the system we live in has accustomed us to an illusory “normality”, where everything looks easy but is in fact the product of imbalances and paradoxes. The mannequin hands and feet on the table legs recall the human cost often paid to sustain this abundance: a kind of collective swindle, where what looks like well-being can hide fragility, inequality and a deep abnormality.