transcenDANCE, 2025
Pigment prints on paper, mounted on acrylic. Dimensions variable.CRT monitors, two-channel HD video, color, sound, continuous loop.
Installation views from the exhibition Synthetic Vision: Aeviternity, at Selasar Sunaryo Art Space, Bandung, Indonesia. Part of the Bandung Photography Triennale 2025. Curated by Henrycus Napitsunargo & Yacobus Ari Respati.
Scozzaro's images emit a certain aura even though what we see are mundane and almost obvious things: a street corner, ends of a column, handwriting on a cardboard surface, etc. The backs of these pictures are radiant with a shade of magenta, their dimensions nearly repeat rhythmically, but not really. As if we are given hope to be able to follow certain visual structures. They are all composed through a great detail of attention, yet what is being depicted are messages and subjects that appear to be utterances, scribbles, half-asleep acts at work made more beautiful than they really are.
As an Italian who lives in America, the artist discovers that sensitivity and value really depend on our background, and effectively, our way of thinking. Interacting, or even having to live in another culture, leaves behind spaces that are strangely amusing, at times feel chaotic, yet vibrant.
Excerpts from the exhibition catalog:
IMAGEDRATIC, 2024
Pigment prints on self-adhesive polypropylene, 24 × 8 ft.
Imagedratic is a collaborative, site-specific installation created with middle and high school students as part of an artist residency at the Berkeley Carroll School in Brooklyn, NY. The project reflects on the overwhelming visual landscape we navigate daily and questions the nature of photography today—its identity, circulation, and entanglement with technology.
By juxtaposing and recontextualizing images drawn from diverse sources, Imagedratic invites viewers to form new associations, embrace visual ambiguity, and critically engage with the seductive power of constructed imagery and the clichés that shape our collective perception.
DIGI LA BAR, 2022
Duratrans on lightbox, 26 × 48 × 6 in;PVC and stickers, 17 × 17 × 9 in;
Neon sign on acrylic, 30 × 26 in.
This installation repurposes found commercial materials to explore the circulation and consumption of images in today’s digital landscape. A found lightbox displays a digital collage of generic appropriated visuals, layered with photographs from the artist's archive. These overlapping fragments reference commercial signage while commenting on the endless recycling of imagery that defines the digital vernacular.
The work’s self-referential structure—where the same image appears across different contexts, scales, and materials—mirrors how photographs circulate online. A reworked neon sign, echoing a previous installation (Digital Deli), and a bright yellow PVC pipe covered in emoji stickers further extend the project’s playful yet critical reflection on visual culture, mass production, and the aesthetics of social media.
DID YOU HAVE A NICE DAY?, 2021
Pigment prints on fluorescent acrylic, eco-solvent prints on adhesive PVC, pigment prints on metallic paper mounted to clear acrylic, jacquard weave, sublimation prints on polyester satin, blue chroma key paint, eco-solvent print on PVC carpet.Dimensions variable.
Three-channel video installation, color, sound, 9 min 45 sec.
Animated GIF, single-channel video projection, color, silent.
Exhibition catalog
Did You Have a Nice Day? situates Marco Scozzaro’s work within a broader reflection on photography’s shifting identity in the digital age. Embracing the visual debris of contemporary culture, Scozzaro merges the formal rigor of traditional photography with the aesthetics of screens, feeds, and interfaces. His practice draws from social media’s layered image culture—where selfies, ads, artworks, appropriations, and snapshots coexist on equal terms—transforming this democratic visual flow into complex compositions that question how meaning is created and circulated today.
In this solo exhibition, Scozzaro’s saturated images and videos counterpoint the neoclassical architecture of the palazzo in Modena and enter into dialogue with works from local archives and collections. This constellation of references creates a vibrant exchange across generations, reflecting Scozzaro’s formative Italian background and his current perspective as a New York–based artist, from the conceptual photography of Luigi Ghirri to the radical design experiments of Ettore Sottsass and Alessandro Mendini, and the postmodern architecture of Aldo Rossi. Did You Have a Nice Day? explores displacement as a means to bridge geographies, eras, and visual languages. By reframing familiar cultural codes through a contemporary lens, Scozzaro reveals how photography continues to reinvent itself as both a technological and emotional medium in dialogue with its own history.
LO SMAZZO, 2021
CRT monitors, speakers, pigment print on self-adhesive polypropylene, neon signs, 12” vinyl record, artist book, artist-made wooden plinth. Dimensions variable.
Lo Smazzo is Italian slang that literally means “fanning cards” and loosely translates to “hustling,” describing the daily grind or the effort to get by. With a bold pop aesthetic, Scozzaro arranges a series of artworks as if in a convenience store, questioning marketing, consumer culture, and the commodification of art itself. Using neon signage, patterned wallpaper, a vinyl record, a book, and a music video streaming through a stack of CRT monitors, he deconstructs the notion of a “commodity store,” playfully critiquing the cult of personality, self-promotion, and competition embedded in contemporary culture.
LAND OF THE FREAK (HOME OF THE BRAVE), 2021
Single-channel HD video, color, sound on 3 CRT monitors. 11 min. 15 sec.
In the liberating act of dancing, the artist performs alone within an immersive installation filled with simulacra of his own image, exploring self-presentation in today’s digital world. Drawing on advertising, nostalgic TV aesthetics, and current social media tropes, he creates a playful yet uncanny tableau that challenges the rhetoric and power structures underlying mainstream media and consumer culture.