The Little Mango is the artistic identity of Caterina Mangone, a multidisciplinary video artist working between nature, technology, and contemporary ritual. Based in Italy, she explores the symbolic and emotional relationships between humans and digital devices through short-format video artworks. With a background in Art Direction and communication, her practice blends poetic visuals with critical commentary on attention, ecological awareness, and screen addiction. Her trilogy Burn. Bury. Sink. has been shown online and across digital platforms, and she is currently developing new site-specific projects focusing on the quiet resistance of the natural world against human control.
Artist Statement:
My artistic practice investigates the intersection of technology and ecology through symbolic gestures and minimal visual storytelling. I use smartphones as metaphors for our dependence on digital tools, placing them in elemental contexts — fire, water, earth — to reveal their fragility and impermanence. My videos act as modern rituals, inviting reflection on how the natural world persists beyond our screens. I am interested in public space as a site for quiet interventions, and in exploring how ritual, decay, and disappearance can become strategies for resistance and poetic engagement.