Lo Smazzo, 2021
Single channel video, color, sound on 3 CRT monitors, pigment print on self-adhesive polypropylene, neon signs, 12” vinyl record, artist book, speakers, custom-made wooden plinth. Dimension variable.Lo smazzo is Italian slang that means "hustling". With its bold pop aesthetic, the installation showcases different artworks as if they were in a convenience store to question marketing and consumer culture.
Land of the Freak (Home of the Brave), 2021
HD video, color, sound, 11 min. 15 sec.
The performative video explores displacement, ambiguity, and the contradictions of living between two cultures (Scozzaro’s Italian roots, and the North American culture he embraced when moved to NY).
In the liberating act of dancing alone inside an immersive installation populated only by simulacra of his own image, Scozzaro questions issues of self-presentation in the contemporary mediated digital world. By appropriating the language of advertising, quoting nostalgic television aesthetics as well as current tropes from social media, he creates a playful but uncanny tableau to question the rhetoric and the power structures behind mainstream media and consumer culture.