Since her early performances, installations and objects, Lara Favaretto has worked much with the ambi-
valence between the carnevalesque and the feeling of resignation or failure. For instance in the piece
Twistle (2004) which consists of an air compressor connected to a timer, activating a whistle at regular in-
tervals. Favaretto often chooses the standard version of an object, and by isolating it, renders its specific
characteristics visible to a tragic-comical extent. Sometimes it is the spectator`s interaction with her works
that actually fulfills their meaning, like in Figlio unico (2004), a tree covered with felt which drops its bran-
ches whenever someone tries to sit underneath. Favaretto creates situations of the playful and the para-
doxical, familiar to us from Federico Fellini films, situations which in their uneconomical impracticality and
enjoyable absurdity always also entail a critique of the existing order.