The Truman Show – The secret life of two neapolitan minnows

It is a happening that makes use of the unwitting collaboration of two goldfish and of the voluntary collaboration of the spectators, to encourage reflection on the media and on the power that reality shows have on private life.

The action is centered around a glass bowl, in which two unsuspecting goldfish live. At irregular intervals of time the artist portrays them in acrylic and oil pastel on wrapping paper and on wood, also indicating the time and transforming each painting into a frame of their reality show.

Action is then completed by the audience taking photographs or selfies with the two fish, as they would with any self-respecting celebrity.

Whether it is sought – through exposure on social networks and reality shows – or involuntary, the continuous and constant monitoring by the media ends up depriving the individual of freedom and the right to privacy.