Erika Malzoni: I am different from you — I am not different from you

January 19 - February 18, 2026
ZAZCorner Times Square Billboard, South East Corner of 41st Street and 7th Avenue
PRESENTED “IN BETWEEN” PROGRAMMING

I am different from you — I am not different from you unfolds a paradox expanded into the urban field, operating as a form of public choreography. Presented on the Times Square billboard, the artwork transforms a single statement into opposing parts and returns them to the city as a shared experience of tension and coexistence. Through repetition and multilingual display, the piece invites reflection on difference, belonging, and shared human presence within the accelerated flow of public space.

Rooted in Erika Malzoni’s attention to what is close, ordinary, and often overlooked, her work explores how everyday materials and gestures carry memory, care, and social meaning, with language at the center of her practice as both material and a system that connects and separates us. Her practice centers on paradoxes that resist resolution, where affirmation and negation exist side by side. By slowing perception through simple formal structures, Malzoni brings focus to the fragile balance between individuality and collectivity, reflecting how human relationships and social realities are continuously shaped.

By placing the artwork in one of the world’s most symbolic crossings, Times Square, defined by constant movement and visual saturation, the work becomes a shared surface rather than a spectacle. Amid competing images and languages, the digitally composed multilingual statements move with the rhythm of public space. They appear as a moment of communication, a quiet reminder that many voices, origins, and differences can occupy one space, where the world briefly gathers, crosses paths, and continues on.

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