Re muto

new medical journal

> info publication Il Re Muto. New Medical Journal .

Re Muto is configured as a peer-reviewed oncology journal, presenting itself as an interdisciplinary scientific forum equipped with academic language, iconographic apparatus, and editorial structures typical of medical-scientific communication.
However, the publication is entirely fictitious.
The project consists of a meticulous reconstruction of an editorial device that adopts and replicates the visual and rhetorical codes of institutional publishing, in order to interrogate the mechanisms through which authority is produced, recognized, and internalized. Through photographs taken in hospitals in Turin and materials from the artist’s personal archive, Re Muto simulates a system of knowledge legitimation in which the validity of content is subordinated to the credibility of its presentation.
Within this framework, texts concerning experimental alternative treatments — drawn from Cancer Journal for Clinicians. Unproven Methods of Cancer Treatment. (John Wiley and Sons Publisher), sources that demonstrate their ineffectiveness — are reinscribed in an editorial context that reactivates their persuasive potential. The promise of a “natural” and non-invasive cure thus asserts itself as a discursive construction, sustained not by scientific evidence but by the aesthetics and grammar of authority.
The project occupies a critical space in which the simulation of care replaces care itself, highlighting how contemporary regimes of truth are increasingly determined by mediation devices and formats of knowledge transmission.
Re Muto — an anagram of “tumore” — operates as an ambiguous threshold between revelation and fiction, making visible the epistemic structures that govern processes of belief and trust within the contemporary informational ecosystem.