Diego Marcon
Prom
Exhibition from 01 Apr 2026
In 4 month
Free entry, no booking
Monday Closed
Tuesday Closed
Wednesday 11am - 7pm
Thursday 11am - 7pm
Friday 11am - 7pm
Saturday 11am - 7pm
Sunday 11am - 7pm
The Parents' Room (2021), Dolle (2023), La Gola (2024), and his latest film Krapfen* (2025), co-produced by Lafayette Anticipations, are at the heart of a project that brings together for the first time his film-based works and the prosthetics, props, furniture, animatronics and objects that were part of their creation. True to his predilection for disruption, here Marcon presents the accomplices of an artistic approach dedicated to ambiguity.
Diego Marcon’s work often develops focused on emotions or sentiments: empathy and vulnerability are deployed without any form of morality or apparent conclusion. The exhibition presented at Lafayette Anticipations brings together films that unfold in the domestic and private space, forming closed-door scenes whose plot plays out at the heart of relationships and explores the power relations and structures that bind them.
The title of the exhibition, “Prom,” humorously refers to the American ritual of the prom, a popular celebration that marks the end of a cycle and the transition to adulthood, while contributing to the mythification of the figure of the teenager.
His work draws on different cinematic vocabularies, notably from musicals, melodramas, horror films, and slapstick comedies.
* Krapfen is the result of a co-production between the Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo in Turin, Lafayette Anticipations in Paris, the New Museum in New York, the Renaissance Society in Chicago, and the Vega Foundation in Toronto.
Curator: Rebecca Lamarche-Vadel
Architect: Andrea Faraguna
Cover image: Diego Marcon, Krapfen, 2025 [Still], digital video, colour, sound © Diego Marcon. Courtesy the Artist, Sadie Coles HQ, London, and Galerie Buchholz, Berlin/Cologne/New York. Produced by Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Lafayette Anticipations, New Museum, The Renaissance Society, The Vega Foundation
Free entry, no booking
Monday Closed
Tuesday Closed
Wednesday 11am - 7pm
Thursday 11am - 7pm
Friday 11am - 7pm
Saturday 11am - 7pm
Sunday 11am - 7pm
