MarioRuggiero

I am a visual artist influenced by Bill Viola, J.G. Ballard and David Cronenberg.

Over the years, I have collaborated with an art association that enabled me to develop video installations alongside artists such as David Cronenberg, Brian Eno, Atom Egoyan and Peter Greenaway.

Recently, I collaborated with Deniz Cuylan, an award-winning composer known for scoring Netflix productions such as Rise of Empires: Ottoman and Midnight at the Pera Palace, and winner of Best Original Score at the Istanbul Film Festival.

My work revolves around loops: closed circuits of images and sounds that repeat endlessly, like obsessive thoughts or recurring dreams. I am particularly drawn to the hypnotic power of repetition, especially when it is applied to moments of rupture: crashes, explosions, or suspended instants that replay indefinitely.

Loops function as a form of refuge, a way to domesticate chaos and transform even violent imagery into something strangely protective.

Repetition operates as a kind of perceptual white noise, capable of regressing us to an embryonic state of safety, regardless of its origin. In this sense, my vision echoes that of Ballard: a world shaped by its traumas, replayed again and again until they lose their sting, or perhaps begin to reveal their deeper nature.