Happening.

June 20, 2024, 6:00 p.m. – 10:00 p.m.
Laptop, desk, writing stand.

103 x 110 x 67 cm.

From the exhibition "Con voce di pura cosa", Motelsalieri, Milan IT curated by Rosaria Murolo.

What happens when a real event becomes the subject of an imaginary narrative at the very moment it unfolds? My Fanon Reality explores the relationship between reality and fiction through the creation of a fanfiction in real time, transforming an exhibition opening into a collective narrative in which visitors unknowingly become protagonists. The installation recreates the domestic environment traditionally associated with amateur writing, reduced to a desk and a computer. On the screen, through a shared Google Docs document, visitors can follow the live writing of Dreamy_voice08, an anonymous teenage authorial persona who reinterprets events unfolding in the exhibition space according to the narrative conventions of fanfiction.

Characterized by romanticization, emotional intensity, and exaggeration, the language transforms ordinary conversations, gestures, and encounters into episodes of an imaginary plot. As they read, visitors gradually recognize familiar situations and people, eventually discovering their own transformation into fictional characters. A narrative dimension emerges, parallel and simultaneous to the event, in which individual experience is reinterpreted and incorporated into a shared imaginary. The writing takes place exclusively during the opening, aligning the duration of the narrative with that of the event itself. In the following days, the resulting text is played back on a loop, transforming the original action into a narrative trace experienced through a temporal delay.

My Fanon Reality thus investigates the possibility of constructing forms of participation based not on declared identity, but on self-recognition within a collective fiction, where the boundary between observing an event and becoming part of it remains continuously unstable.

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