I’ve already been here. America
This work consists of the poem America by Allen Ginsberg, written with white ink on a white sheet, and three images representing American contradictions: a postcard of atomic bomb explosions made in front of a public in the ’50s, the picture of a house lost somewhere in the Midwest, and a polaroid taken by the artist in a public conference of Slavoj Zizek at Zuccotti Park during Occupy Wall Street.
«The poem, written white on white means that in this non-place the true consciousness is a non-consciousness. America, in fact, has a public consciousness referring to the drunk narration of freedom, constitution, and best country in the world. Then, there is a denied consciousness which is the same that the Beats have shown in their literature, through the image of a country that is weak because it’s young, weak because it doesn’t accept itself. And it is trembling and quivering, in a sort of outing always frustrated, always postponed, always swallowed. America is the gay son of Nations which is scared to confess its identity because it has a machist father and a sanctimonious mother, but most of all because it feels bad more than just feeling itself. So all of this remains a white trace on a white context. America which doesn't make outing will always be a non-place, a place with a fake consciousness, and a killed dream.
