The Party's over: Welkome Darkness!
Video installation
Full-HD video projection, color, loop
Sheets of transparent food film
Variable size
MACT/CACT Bellinzona
04.06. - 28.08.2022
In The Party’s Over: Welcome Darkness!, Jacomella Bonola constructs a multilayered installation where light and darkness operate as philosophical opposites and existential metaphors. Using balloons cast in plaster, shards of glass, and two synchronized video loops, she choreographs a sensory encounter between celebration and decay.
The title, both ironic and prophetic, evokes the dual desire for destruction and renewal, the twilight of one epoch and the dawn of another. Drawing on theoretical reflections by Francesca Rigotti and Nina Edwards on the cultural history of darkness, the artist reclaims “the dark” as a generative space of introspection and creative potential. Within an environment oversaturated by brightness, literal and digital, Jacomella Bonola’s work invites the viewer to embrace opacity as resistance, to find light within the void.
Credits: © Patricia Jacomella / James Dudley