"Suburb's head". Modernism cast away: factories, local sanitary units, schools, day-care centres… The architecture of social utility. The failure of an idea that has characterized more than half a century and brought these public places to a uselessness in which, deprived of their value, they are real and unreal at the same time, concrete but empty, a void for fantasms, fears, hopes and utopias to materialise in. Suburbia has entered so far into our heads that every abandoned space seems full of figures in eternal wait, or puppets that gesticulate animatedly, once out of their boxes, of loudspeakers invisible and muted by the fog they are immersed in, and musical records thrown into eternal puddles. The real human expressions, no, not those; they are confused, are a thousand faces in one, as anonymous as the architecture they inhabit, indistinguishable from the spaces they move in, and in their absent regards the inside becomes the outside and vice-versa, and everything seems the same. But in the void, fortunately, the contrary is the case.
Roberta Bruno was born in 1966, and Gianfranco Botto in 1963. WORKS IN COLLECTIONS: GAM, Galleria d'Arte Moderna, Turin; Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin. AWARDS. 1998: "Una porta per Torino", 2nd edition, Associazione Arte Giovane, Centro Congressi Torino Incontra.