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The video Kant Can't (2024) centres on the oneiric portrait of a group of characters who inhabit an imaginary landscape. Astronauts fleeing from an immense figure of a woman in the process of trying to trample them, hands that emerge like enormous archaeological ruins and gigantic insects that burst onto the scene, form the scenario of an escape into the absurd. The relationship with consciousness becomes an experiential journey, in which reality is magnified by our means of perception. In the video, the primary protagonist is an astronaut who has managed to escape his fate, yet then finds himself in various situations, in a succession of scenarios not unlike those of a video game.

Rä di Martino (Rome, 1975) studied in London, where she earned an MFA from the Slade School of Art. With the Premio New York, she received a scholarship to Columbia University. Her work has been exhibited internationally in museums and film festivals, including: MoMA-PS1 and Artists Space, New York; Tate Modern, London; MCA, Chicago; Palazzo Grassi, Venice; Museion, Bolzano; Magasin, Grenoble; the Busan Biennale; Manifesta 7; Kino der Kunst, Munich; Transmediale, Berlin. At the 2014 Venice Film Festival, she presented the medium-length documentary The Show MAS Go On, winning the Gillo Pontecorvo Award, the SIAE Award, and a Nastro d'Argento; the 2018 Festival presented her feature film Controfigura. In 2019, she opened the exhibition Afterall at Mattatoio - Palaexpo in Rome and at Kunst Halle Sankt Gallen. In 2022, she held a retrospective exhibition at Forte Belvedere in Florence and a solo exhibition at Torre Matta in Otranto with an installation on Carmelo Bene's archive. She opened her solo show Electric Whispers at BAC, Beirut Art Center and Fotografia Europea, Reggio Emilia in 2025.