NICHOLAS NEGLIA CAROPRESO

GUILT

Video-performance, 2025.
HBK Essen, Wuppertal.

In "Guilt", the artist pedal for fifty minutes next to an empty bicycle, without a rider. The work stems from the urgent need to give shape to a moral sense of guilt that overwhelmed him after a tragic event in his hometown: the death of a young Black migrant, struck by a vehicle while cycling to "work" along a rural road