Clemente Ciarrocca

#5   A Circle Is the Only Geometric Shape Defined by Its Centre


Inspired by Sarah Kane’s play Crave, a script in which the characters are denoted only by initials, their gender identifiable only through context, and where no stage directions are provided apart from the occasional indication of a beat, artist Clemente Ciarrocca hosts an hour of confessions, diffusing the lines between the personal, the private, and anonymity.

You are invited to share small confessions, alone or in pairs, for seconds or for minutes, into a microphone placed at a distance from the crowd,
 allowing you to have an intimate moment with it while remaining unheard by others. Prompts offer simple guidance: an image, a script, or something evocative.

Together we create a durational aural script that will later be pitched down four octaves, anonymised, and paired with a video work showing slow-motion, close-up footage of a mouth speaking, slowed to the point where the articulation of the lips becomes untraceable to the original utterance.


Biography
Clemente Ciarrocca (b. 1994, Rome) is an artist and theorist living in Berlin. Working across sculpture, printmaking, video, and poetry, his practice turns around intimacy as an intangible force that influences discourse while refusing to be fixed. Recent solo exhibitions include Aktionshaus, Berlin (2025), Obelus, Berlin (2025), and Fondamenta dei Penini, Venice (2024). Ciarrocca holds an MFA from the California Institute of the Arts (2023) and a BA in Philosophy and Economics from University College London (2016).

https://clemente-ciarrocca.com/
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Time:20:00 – 22:00

Duration: 2 h

13.12.2025, Saturday