The installation by David Lynch at Salone 2024

Fiera Milano, Corso Italia, 20017 Rho
16-21 april, h. 9:30 am-6:30 pm

In addition to titles that have marked epochs and return again and again amid eternal references to styles and characters, David Lynch has managed to traumatize or inspire entire generations with both spaces and stories. A great film director between the 1980s and 1990s, Hollywood’s cross and delight, Lynch is a master in plumbing the unconscious, its limits, its horrors, and its paradoxes. Lynch hasn’t been making films for a few years now; he’s more of a guru, touring the world with lectures on meditation.

From his film career, however, we have inherited the asphyxiating interior of Blue Velvet, the red-draped panic and zigzagging floors of Twin Peaks’ Black Lodge, hypercubes capable of containing a universe, interstitial spaces that have remained cult-like in popular culture. 

Probably in an attempt to wink at the Fuorisalone audience, the Salone called Lynch to the fair, where the director presents twin “thinking rooms.” Paradoxical places even in intention, since almost none of the visitors are there to think, almost all to take a selfie. Meanwhile, David Lynch, the master of paradox, likely laughs it off. Surely, in perfect coherence with his entire artistic line, he won’t spare his audience’s psyche, already tested by the fair, previews, and cocktails, in any way.