There are no other animals quite so fond of their addictions, and no other species so ingenious and imaginative in finding so many paths to pleasure as the Homo Sapien. What passes for pleasure in the moment and short term, and often has overall tragic consequences in the long term.

In her exhibition "Dissatisfaction" opening at d. m. allison on Colquitt this February, Marzia Faggin presents us with the "morning after," and what might be left on our nightstands. Her half eaten chocolates, collections of prose pondering the search for gratification, and a rainbow of addictions from the apothecary to the candy store, seem to imply that  the human condition is overwhelming and unresolveable.

  

The artist painstakingly creates plaster cast (Hydrocal) and hand painted books, candy, gum, coffee stains, and chocolates arranged with equally realistic life size reproductions from the apothecary. For all our strengths, our pursuit of pleasure renders us perpetually fragile, and the riddle of what it's all about illusive.

Marzia Faggin was born in California's Silicon Valley in 1970, and in the late 1980's studied Graphic design at the Instituto Europeo Di Design in Milano Italy. She worked as an editor for KTSF television in conjunction with the Italian consulate in San Francisco, Xerox Palo Alto Research Center (PARC), Xerox Palo Alto, and General Electric Support Central in New Haven, CT, before returning to Italy to study paper conservation at Atelier Deltos di Simonetta Rosatelli where she also started painting. In late 2004 Faggin had her first painting exhibition in Florence at the Liberia Martelli before moving to Houston with her husband Manuel Terranova in 2006 where they now live with their 5 year ld daughter Izabella.