Dysfunctional Haven is a spatial installation that explores the complexities and contradictions of toxic relationships through a series of altered jewellery boxes.
This project prompts the viewer to reflect on the nature of love and the ways in which it can be both a source of pleasure and pain. The jewellery boxes in the installation are not only functional objects, but serve as visual representations of the dychotomies that characterise toxic relationships.
Through the use of light as materiality, memories of dysfunctional love are made visible by the reflection of the texts written on the jewellery boxes through the use of LED torches.
Mattia Friso is a visual artist working across photography, video, space, objects, and prints. Through interactive environments, his work explores the intersection of technology, perception, memory, and image-making, starting from a personal and queer lens. He uses a material-based, iterative research approach to uncover and question the societal norms embedded within systems of representation, particularly those shaped by technological apparatuses.