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Vello D’oro (2020) is a fantastic narrative of the landscape of  Lo Internet. Palamenghi reconstructs a mythology of the Web and its symbols, telling us about the journey of the digital revolution and retracing its iconic motifs and references. The ‘end of Internet’ is narrated by the artist with epic tones as an exclusion from the world, an exclusion from history that, however, occurs within her narrative. Ancient Greek epic is the pivot around which the artist develops her research, to which she gives a always digital formal outcome. The perfect frame for her work is vaporwave aesthetics, with scenes built in the video at increasingly rapid rhythms. Vello D’oro and its legendary healing properties is both an image and a magical tool that has proven useful in this era marked by the COVID-19 pandemic, and at the same time it lends itself to addressing another emergency of our time: the shipwrecks of refugees on the Mediterranean coasts. The fleece offers shelter, protection, and care. It is a kind of life-saving blanket used to assist shipwrecked survivors.

In Vello D’oro Palamenghi explores elements related to the narrative heritage of Western mythology, which after a long process of translation and tradition, have crystallized into the form that is now part of our cultural patrimony. At the same time, she applies these same narrative categories to the story of *Lo Internet* and, with this, the technologies that enabled its dissemination. For Palamenghi, an interesting theme is that of error, which in the translation of language—both verbal and artistic—gives rise to a deviation that modifies the traits of the work, completely renewing it: the glitch trait that defines her aesthetic allows her to formalize this attention to error and give rise to new compositional and expressive standards.

Alice Palamenghi (Gavardo 1992), graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Venice, School of New Technologies for the Arts. She currently lives and works in London, United Kingdom. My research is a reflection on technique [techniques and technologies] understood as a mirror to identify the human: technique is a tool that incorporates concepts, books, libraries, language, archives. It is in its garments, culture, and knowledge that the human truly resides. In this reflection (where the human materializes outside of the human), I develop my work by modeling 3D landscapes, re-proposing traces of human presence and its history.

Vello D’oro|Alice Palamenghi
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