Rebecca Moccia
Cold As You Are

A project by OGR Torino for Luci d’Artista
From 8 December 2024 to 2 February 2025
Corte Est | OGR Torino

Free entrance

OGR Torino presents Cold As You Are, a new work by Rebecca Moccia commissioned to the artist on the occasion of the 27th edition of Luci d'Artista and new entry in the Constellations section of the project with which the City of Turin has been illuminating Turin's winter with contemporary art installations since 1998.

The video installation, produced with the technical support of Epson, also inaugurates Surface Tension, the new OGR project that transforms the facades of Corte Est into a large projection canvas for site-specific works.

The site-specific intervention by Rebecca Moccia, winner of the OGR Award 2023 promoted by the Fondazione per l'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea CRT, collects intimate and public scenes filmed with a thermal camera, combined in a sequence that combines different elements and narratives.

The thermal image, which has recurred in the artist's work since 2021, often appears in relation to nonhuman subjects, questioning its functional and informational use to narrate sensitive aspects of situations beyond the visible, contributing to the creation of emotional perception.

The work was presented to the public on December 8 by OGR Torino President Davide Canavesio, City of Turin Councillor for Culture Rosanna Purchia, Luci d'Artista curator Antonio Grulli and artist Rebecca Moccia.

REBECCA MOCCIA
Rebecca Moccia (b. 1992, Naples) is an artist whose transdisciplinary practice explores the materiality of perceptive and emotional states that can emerge from specific social and spatial characteristics. Rebecca Moccia’s works have been exhibited at the 15th Gwangju Biennale (Gwangju), International Short Film Festival (Oberhausen), ICA Milano (Milan), Jupiter Woods (London), Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo (Guarene), Fondazione Prada (Milan), Italian Cultural Institute (Brussels), Fondazione Morra Greco (Naples), Mazzoleni (London-Turin), Museo Novecento (Florence), MACRO (Rome), among others. Between 2021 and 2023 she gained important recognition for her work such as the OGR Award issued by Fondazione per l’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea CRT, ArteVisione Prize promoted by Careof, and the international research grant issued by the Italian Ministry of Culture (Italian Council X - DGCC) for the project Ministry of Loneliness, a collaboration with Magazzino Italian Art (New York), Outset (London), Nanzan University (Nagoya) among other cultural partners. Rebecca Moccia is among the founding members of AWI - Art Workers Italia.



Photo credit
Installation view | Rebecca Moccia, Cold As You Are, 2024
Matteo Zin for OGR Torino
Portrait | Ph Parker McComb