Until April 15, SUPERNOVA’s spaces in Piazza di Santa Maria in Trastevere, Rome, are hosting That’s All Folks!, the new solo exhibition by Mattia Pajè, curated by Niccolò Giacomazzi. The project, featuring decorative interventions by Shiva Om Art, draws its inspiration from rave culture. Historically, rave culture is understood as a space of alterity and collective experimentation, an ephemeral territory where body-centric sensory and social rules can be redefined.
The concept behind That’s All Folks! stems from Giacomazzi’s reflection on the idea of a rave, not in its full, expansive form, but rather in its “borderline” state – where the event is on the verge of happening without ever fully materializing, and what seems imminent remains unfulfilled. The curator explains that the artist has created a large, immersive “ready-made” that evokes the typical rave aesthetic. However, this aesthetic, usually functional in inducing a collective trance, here transforms into a pure form, stripped of its original purpose.
The exhibition invites the viewer to explore perceptual processes that connect the visible and the potential, in a dynamic without a defined beginning or end. Within this recreated atmosphere of “waiting,” Pajè constructs an environment where unity and alienation coexist through the chromatic harmony of an intelligent melancholy. Fluorescent and polychrome fabrics are stretched along the stone walls, creating a sense of exoticism and a vibrant ambiance that, in an almost Canovian sense, anticipates or postpones a celebration.
The “din” of the party is perceptible only from a distance, existing in a delicate balance between space and experience. Giacomazzi concludes: “The party, in fact, is over, and only the sound of the generator endlessly continues. It’s as if absence becomes suspended matter, a space without a body.”
