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Italian-born Ciervo has been living and working since 1984 in West Berlin, where he has witnessed social and political history unfold in both dramatic and subtle ways. Bringing an academic background in electronics, economics, political science, and philosophy to his art, Ciervo’s work records the changes that have accompanied the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 and the transition from an authoritarian state socialism to a very different socio-political formation in the now united Federal Republic of Germany.
His “video objects” and installations explore themes connected with this unification period, in particular, the union of technology, economic growth and progress at work in Germany today. The recurring theme in many of these works questions the regarded notions of progress and growth assumed in the new Germany.
Berlin is a city where the modes of individual and collective experience of the past intersect with those of the future. Ciervo’s installations attempt to make the points of their intersection visible in ways that challenge widely accepted notions about politics, culture, science, technology and human nature.