Arko Datto, WILL MY MANNEQUIN BE HOME WHEN I RETURN?, 2018

Nighttime is often when both humans and animals revert to their truest and most intense physical and psychological states. Arko Datto looks at the night and life that subsists in nightly spaces, often in direct and brutal confrontation with each other, walking through it as if it was a dream. The book is conceived as a dream itself, as a non completely conscious state in which repetition, overlaying and visions are the reference points for a path into the unknown.
Will my mannequin be home when I return is the first chapter of a trilogy that L’Artiere will entirely publish in the next few years.