Il gioco della verità (the game of truth) is part of a series focused on the idea of the game as a metaphor for power dynamics in interpersonal relationships.
The game becomes here a contest in which at arm’s length one person tries to hit the back of the hand of the other. During the action, visible and audible only from the street, the artists write on the gallery’s window a series of questions regarding love the meaning it has within couple relationships and the game continues until the glass is entirely covered with words. Ottonella writes in reverse, so her questions become straight from the other side of the window, wile Nicola does the opposite. The spectator participates thus at a minimal but significant distance, separated by the space in which the action takes place by a transparent wall of words that traces the borderline between public and private spaces.

At the same time the public hears a montage of fragments of conversations between lovers taken from films that, while adding meaning to the work by placing it into a more collective sphere, does not answer our questions as tough to underline the impossibility to grasp an absolute truth. The visual background for the action consists on a video projection where hundreds of colored hearts float in liquid, creating a sort of fish tank effect.