The Ten Pizza Commandments

The Ten Pizzas Commandments are a series of silk screens on pizzas cardboard. Each commandment is an imperative verb (related to Rocha Pitta’s own repertoire of gestures and contemporary events), that reflects and play on the role of political slogans, which in the past years migrated from protests cardboard DIY posters to the surface of packed products.

Feed

“Feed” highjacks the very first photograph of a black hole, a historical event that took place in April 2019, whose image Rocha Pitta appropriate from the Wall Street Journal. The celestial body is placed inside a plastic bag, while two hands open it, a third one throws a coin. Its trait of absorbing everything around it becomes an anal-cosmic-accumulation device, demanding to be infinitely fed, very grateful for our eternal debt.

The work was printed in 2021 for the homonymous exhibition at CASSTL (Carla Arocha’s, Stéphane Schraenen’s and Luc Tuyman’s non profit gallery in Antwerp).  

This concrete Stela works as a conceptual matrix for the silkscreen: like lithography, it holds and encapsulates the elements of the print, which are not only images, but also objects.

POP

The Pop Commandment is a reflection on power and image circulation, how the management of circuits ( or bubbles ) is integral to power dynamics and subjective resonance.

A photograph of the extreme right italian politician Mateo Salvini, framing a crowd in his cell phone is the departure point for such a reflection.