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Vincere / All we ever wanted was everything, 2025
Video Loop, 24 Hours / Livestream - allweeverwantedwaseverything.com
Installed as part of States of Stagnation, duo show with Giacomo Mercuriali curated by Caterina Avataneo at Mare Karina Gallery, Venice
The work is a 24-hour long screen recording of the videogame Grand Theft Auto V (Rockstar Games, 2013), in which an androgynous avatar lies supine on a bed, facing away from the viewer. The game remains static as if the gamer were not in front of the screen, leaving the console on without pausing, with the light coming through the window in the video following the movement of sunlight.
Inspired by the genre of sleep streams, the video is streamed live 24/7 on a dedicated website forever, and for the entire duration of the duo show “States of Stagnation” with Giacomo Mercuriali, curated by Caterina Avataneo at Mare Karina Gallery in Venice is installed on a LED wall in the gallery’s window, constantly playing night and day.
The piece aligns with the exhibition’s overarching theme of passivity and the search for new forms of resistance. In this case, the focus is on rejecting the game’s rules and the urgency of expansion, celebrating exhaustion instead.
Remaining still and unproductive, in a game centered on accumulation and consumption, is the only possible act of transgression that does not reinforce the supremacy of its own rules.
Following videogame logics and dynamics, the original poster designs on the bedroom walls are photoshopped and substituted by other easter eggs, referencing the symbology behind the piece and the other works in the exhibition.
Special thanks to Alessandro Pippia @ppp.lsn and Davide Pavan @hologarm_ for the help and support throughout the realisation of the work.
Vincere / All we ever wanted was everything, detail
Photo by Tiziano Ercoli @tiziano.ercoli