CURA.

DIEGO MARCON
Special Project

CURA. 45
The Blackuout Issue

Diego Marcon, Krapfen (the wardrobe), 2025 [Frames Sequence]
© Diego Marcon. Courtesy Diego Marcon.
Produced by Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Lafayette Anticipations, New Museum, The Renaissance Society, The Vega Foundation.

DIEGO MARCON (b. 1985, Busto Arsizio, Italy) primarily focuses on moving image. His practice centers on the investigation of cinematic archetypes in a process combining theoretical and structural approaches to filmmaking, with the sentimental attitudes of popular movie genres. His works—spanning film, video, and installation—often utilize a looped structure to articulate an emotional display that flirts with the pathetic aspects of popular entertainment, and simultaneously draws attention to the media itself. Throughout Marcon’s work, empathy and vulnerability are deployed with intentional ambiguity, such that the instrumental use of their forms and figures constitutes a blurred morality. This ambiguity is viewed by Marcon first and foremost as a political weapon of defiance.