Inside Novembre Issue 18: Moving Behind by Diego Marcon

Get into a strange, exposed architecture of emotion through Diego Marcon's works. Here, the mechanics sit bare: props, fragments of bodies and rooms that, onscreen, feel uncannily alive. They become something else: colder, sharper, almost absurd. The illusion isn’t broken so much as unsettled, complicated.

What emerges is a tension between fabrication and belief: how easily we accept the artificial, how quickly we feel. Maybe a quiet reminder that emotion, too, is constructed, and that our trust in images is never entirely innocent.

Archives of Diego Marcon, North of Italy, 2025. © Diego Marcon. Courtesy the artist. Photography: Andrea Rossetti
Archives of Diego Marcon, North of Italy, 2025. © Diego Marcon. Courtesy the artist. Photography: Andrea Rossetti
Diego Marcon. 'The Parents' Room', 2021 [Production Image]. Digital video transferred from 35mm film, CGI animation, color, sound. Duration: 6 min 23 sec, looped. © Diego Marcon. Courtesy the artist. Photography: Lilia Strojec
Diego Marcon. 'The Parents' Room', 2021 [Production Image]. Digital video transferred from 35mm film, CGI animation, color, sound. Duration: 6 min 23 sec, looped. © Diego Marcon. Courtesy the artist. Photography: Lilia Strojec
North of Italy, 2025. © Diego Marcon. Courtesy the artist
North of Italy, 2025. © Diego Marcon. Courtesy the artist
Diego Marcon. 'The Parents' Room', 2021 [Still]. Digital video transferred from 35mm film, CGI animation, color, sound. Duration: 6 min 23 sec, looped. © Diego Marcon. Courtesy the artist and Fondazione Donnaregina per le arti contemporanee, Naples. Supported by Italian Council (2019)
Diego Marcon. 'The Parents' Room', 2021 [Still]. Digital video transferred from 35mm film, CGI animation, color, sound. Duration: 6 min 23 sec, looped. © Diego Marcon. Courtesy the artist and Fondazione Donnaregina per le arti contemporanee, Naples. Supported by Italian Council (2019)
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Diego Marcon. 'Dolle', 2023 [Still]. Digital video transferred from 35mm film, CGI animation, color, sound. Duration: 29 min 32 sec, looped. © Diego Marcon. Courtesy the artist and Sadie Coles HQ, London
Diego Marcon. 'Dolle', 2023 [Still]. Digital video transferred from 35mm film, CGI animation, color, sound. Duration: 29 min 32 sec, looped. © Diego Marcon. Courtesy the artist and Sadie Coles HQ, London
Archives of Diego Marcon, North of Italy, 2025. © Diego Marcon. Courtesy the artist. Photography: Andrea Rossetti
Archives of Diego Marcon, North of Italy, 2025. © Diego Marcon. Courtesy the artist. Photography: Andrea Rossetti
Diego Marcon. 'La Gola', 2024 [Production Image]. Digital video transferred from 35mm film, CGI animation, color, sound. Duration: 22 min, 22 sec. © Diego Marcon. Courtesy the artist. Photography: Francesco Puppo
Diego Marcon. 'La Gola', 2024 [Production Image]. Digital video transferred from 35mm film, CGI animation, color, sound. Duration: 22 min, 22 sec. © Diego Marcon. Courtesy the artist. Photography: Francesco Puppo
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Diego Marcon. 'La Gola', 2024 [Production Image]. Digital video transferred from 35mm film, CGI animation, color, sound. Duration: 22 min, 22 sec. © Diego Marcon. Courtesy the artist. Photography: Francesco Puppo
Diego Marcon. 'La Gola', 2024 [Production Image]. Digital video transferred from 35mm film, CGI animation, color, sound. Duration: 22 min, 22 sec. © Diego Marcon. Courtesy the artist. Photography: Francesco Puppo
Diego Marcon. 'Krapfen', 2025 [Production Image]. Digital video, colour, sound. 4 min 44 sec, looped. © Diego Marcon. Courtesy the artist. Produced by Fondazione Sandretto. Re Rebaudengo, Lafayette Anticipations, New Museum, The Renaissance Society, The Vega Foundation. Photography: Brigida Brancale
Diego Marcon. 'Krapfen', 2025 [Production Image]. Digital video, colour, sound. 4 min 44 sec, looped. © Diego Marcon. Courtesy the artist. Produced by Fondazione Sandretto. Re Rebaudengo, Lafayette Anticipations, New Museum, The Renaissance Society, The Vega Foundation. Photography: Brigida Brancale
Diego Marcon. 'Krapfen', 2025 [Production Image]. Digital video, colour, sound
Duration: 4 min 44 sec, looped. © Diego Marcon. Courtesy the artist. Produced by Fondazione Sandretto. Re Rebaudengo, Lafayette Anticipations, New Museum, The Renaissance Society, The Vega Foundation. Photography: Brigida Brancale
Diego Marcon. 'Krapfen', 2025 [Production Image]. Digital video, colour, sound Duration: 4 min 44 sec, looped. © Diego Marcon. Courtesy the artist. Produced by Fondazione Sandretto. Re Rebaudengo, Lafayette Anticipations, New Museum, The Renaissance Society, The Vega Foundation. Photography: Brigida Brancale
Diego Marcon. 'La Gola', 2024 [Still]. Digital video transferred from 35mm film, CGI animation, color, sound. Duration: 22 min 22 sec. © Diego Marcon. Courtesy the artist; Sadie Coles HQ, London. Galerie Buchholz, Berlin/Cologne/New York; Kunstverein Hamburg Kunsthalle Wien; and Centre d’Art Contemporain Genève for BIM ’24
Diego Marcon. 'La Gola', 2024 [Still]. Digital video transferred from 35mm film, CGI animation, color, sound. Duration: 22 min 22 sec. © Diego Marcon. Courtesy the artist; Sadie Coles HQ, London. Galerie Buchholz, Berlin/Cologne/New York; Kunstverein Hamburg Kunsthalle Wien; and Centre d’Art Contemporain Genève for BIM ’24
Diego Marcon, 'Krapfen', 2025 [Still]. Digital video, colour, sound. Duration: 4 min 44 sec, looped. © 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
Diego Marcon, 'Krapfen', 2025 [Still]. Digital video, colour, sound. Duration: 4 min 44 sec, looped. © 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