PISSED - Photography

“Much like the satiric comic strips I grew up with in Italy during di Anni di Piombo (Years of Lead 1968-1982), PISSED provides similar comic relief for our current dangerous political climate. While newly established authoritarian regimes are thriving on fear, our daily crushing tension generated by the news certainly needs venting. As history has taught us,  such regimes cannot stand the power of a politically aware, laughing opposition. I consider this another experiment in breaking the echo chambers of isolation and separation imposed by the digital deluge. I convert East Window’s private bathroom chamber into a space where an individual may build a resonant community,  by stepping back into the gallery and uniting with others through laughter. I express  my intention of using art not to offend but to make people think. Let me quote political scientist and philosopher Hanna Arendt: "Evil is perpetuated when immoral principles become normalized over time by obedient people who fail to think.” And I’ll add fail to laugh. “

—Marco Corvo

Marco Corvo, born in Milan, Italy, is an artist, photographer and filmmaker who lives and works in the United States. He studied filmmaking and cinematography in Milan at the Civica Scuola di Cinema Luchino Visconti and at Ipotesi Cinema di Ermanno Olmi near Venice. He has exhibited work in galleries in the US, including the Center for Visual Art of Metro State University, Denver; Walker Fine Art, Denver as well as internationally in galleries in Milan and Geneva. Utilizing a large format camera and a 19th-century photographic process, Marco creates images that explore our contemporary experience of the passage of time.​ Marco is Interested in the destabilizing effect that the high-speed digital deluge has on our bodies, our sensory perception and our social life. Through the use of an inherently slow antique photographic process, in his practice, Marco strives to bring to life rituals and rhythms which reestablish a sense of duration, narration, and history – slowing time, creating resonance, and restoring meaning to a space devoid of it. Within his mountain community, Marco has recently exhibited in an historic barn  is body of work entitled impermanence and shot a brief documentary about it. This documentary, has been screened at the University of Colorado Boulder, and Marco was invited to give a talk at the Center for Media, Religion, and Culture in February 2025.

https://www.marcocorvo.com/