ArtNoble Gallery is pleased to present All Together: “Goodbye Master!”, a group exhibition with works by Andreea Anghel, Oliviero Fiorenzi, Anita Muçolli, Liselor Perez, Barbara Prenka and Dardan Zhegrova, curated by Arnold Braho.

All Together: “Goodbye Master!” takes up the marionette as a critical figure through which to question the relationship between puppeteer and animated object, and the forms of coor-dination that arise between these two subjectivities. What happens when the puppet leaves the stage? What remains once the coordinates and systems that organise bodies, gestures and behaviours fall away? What occurs when an object begins to behave like a subject?

Pasolini was already asking this in Che cosa sono le nuvole? (What Are the Clouds?): the film’s marionettes, after being rejected and beaten by an outraged audience, are thrown into a rubbish dump, beneath the open sky for the first time. The marionette is therefore a pa-radoxical figure. It speaks through someone else’s…