A curation by Natalie Slater, Curator at Singulart - This selection focuses on Andrea Vandoni’s 'Caffettiera' series — a sustained study of the moka pot, repeated and repositioned across shifting interiors and color fields.
The object remains constant, but its role doesn’t. Placed side by side, angled toward or away from each other, the forms begin to register as figures. A tilt becomes a gesture. Distance reads as tension. Proximity suggests exchange. Without alteration to the object itself, the compositions introduce a range of relational states.
Color and setting do the rest. Saturated grounds, shallow spaces, and carefully staged perspectives push the moka pots out of still life and into something more active. They occupy the scene rather than sit within it.
Titles reinforce that shift. They don’t describe the object—they frame the interaction. What’s depicted is less about utility and more about presence: pairs that echo conversation, repetition that implies rhythm, arrangements that hold just long enough to suggest narrative without fully resolving it.
The result is a body of work where a familiar form is steadily displaced from function and repositioned as a stand-in for human exchange.
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