Leonardo Belardinelli's paintings, drawings, and sculptures construct a kind of impossible self-portrait of the human species, where recurring figures seem animated by a latent, invisible virus that inhabits humanity itself. Familiar yet profoundly uncanny, these faces belong to everyone and no one, resembling harmless neighbors who, through endless repetition, quietly take dominion over the world. 

His work transforms the everyday into a site of subtle corruption, where the identical becomes unsettling and the ordinary reveals its hidden monstrosity. Acting as an observing machine, Belardinelli's practice brings to the surface the secret distortions embedded within collective existence, inviting viewers to confront the fragile boundary between familiarity and estrangement.