Twister I Dreams & Dramas : The Network Project

DREAMS & DRAMAS

The network project includes a series of video installations that are embedded within the museums’ architecture, connecting the ten museums, enhancing the visibility of the network, and revealing both the uniqueness and the cohesion of the project as a whole while exposing the specific character of each art institution.

“The network project is a series of site-specific ‘video Haiku / gestures’.

Working with existing architecture, I often use video projection in order to create new physical and psychological experiences within spaces that we assume are known. In this series of interventions I will project short poetic videos that were conceived specially for these sites, aiming to rethink their physical, historical, and social contexts.”

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see installation shots and images from all 10 installations:

Fondazione Stelline, Milano

Inspired by the memories of the 20th century as the complex of Fondazione Stelline was the home of teenage orphan girls during wartime, I created an image of a young woman who is looking through a steamy window. Her minimal gesture is dual: both cleaning up the steam like she is trying to see through as well as fare-welling every viewer on their way out of the building.

Seen only while leaving the building, the ‘moving vitrage’ connects between architecture and memory the physical and psychological engagement with the past.

GAM Civica Galleria d’Arte Moderna, Gallarate and Premio Nazionale Arti Visive Città di Gallarate

The two museums, located on two sides of a park, are at one and the same time one institution and two separate ones. My installation activates the dynamic dialog between the two institutions, including the dreams and the dramas. Inspired by the child-friendly environment of the public park I chose the image of the swing that will move up and down between two buildings - every time that the young woman sitting on the swing will disappear from one building it will reappear in the other one. Sometimes complementary shapes - other times opposite poles - the swing at this two-sided video installation keeps going up-and-down, back-and- forth.

GAMeC Galleria d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Bergamo

For GAMeC I built a site-specific ‘video trompe-l’oeil’. Onto an arched window at the entrance section of the museum I projected images of similar architectural elements from Accademia Carrara. The historical institution across the street that is now under construction is reflected in the contemporary art institution. In this ‘reversed trompe-l’oeils’ the construction of the optical illusions serves as a cultural and political disillusion, a deconstruction. Hoping to take the ‘illusion of the eye’ from its physical meaning into its cultural one, this installation will explore both the tension and the inspiration between the influential institutions.

CIMAC - Museo del Novecento

Working in a museum that is still ‘under constructing’ inspired both the medium and the massage of my project for Museo del Novecento. Instead of using a hi-tech video projector I built a ‘low-tech’ moviemaker made out of overhead projector, wood cutouts and a rotating platform. Like the building, the ‘means of production’ in the installation are exposed.

The projected image is a continuous cityscape that I constructed using archival photos of the building and the area since the 30’s till today. The projected sequence tells the history of the building from a spatial perspective and activates the tension between construction and deconstruction.

FAI - Villa e Collezione Panza, Varese

For Villa Panza I created a quite installation of young woman looking from the museum to the outside world.

Whether this is a princess in a castle or a kid communicates with her friends down the street. Whether this is sign language, Morse code or just a quiet gaze outside- the video meditates on the ideas of private and public, communication and miscommunication: the villa, the castles, the convents and the white cubes and their connections to open street level.

Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Lissone

While visiting in Lisonne I was impressed by the central location of the museum and the fact that it is neighboring the ‘gate’ of the modern town, the train station. The project explores what happens when the buildings metaphorically reflect one another- become ‘a space on the move’- a space that promotes physical, social, and cultural mobility. Blurring the boundaries between the physical space and the space of illusion, I created a two-part video installation for two windows on opposite sides of the museums. The people on one side looking inside the building, expecting something to happen, while on the other side, a train crosses the frame every few minutes, turning the permanent space into a transitional one.

MAM Museo d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Gazoldo degli Ippoliti

Based on a the recent archiving and documention project that filled the gap on many years of no documentation, i came up with a semi-abstract scene, where thousands of papers fly in the air, covering the landscape with feather like slow movements of photos, documents and forgotten words. The image presents at the same time a fantasy of absolute freedom and the nightmare of chaos.

Museo Civico  Floriano Bodini, Gemonio

Lead by the emotional expressionism and the dramatic quality of the work of sculptor Florino Bodini, I chose to

project a video on the glass wall, to be seen from inside and outside. The young woman opening her hand to wave and communicate with the visitors is herself a visitor at of Bodini’s work. She imitates the open hand of the woman at the central piece at the museum courtyard but brings a quiet, internal, almost chilled energy to balance the

expressionistic flame of the woman made in bronze.

Galleria del Premio Suzzara, Suzzara

The film-installation I created for Galleria del Premio Suzzara is inspired by the deep roots of  the political and visual traditions of the area from one hand, and from the aesthetics of my other installations in other museums on the other. As I often work with exciting architecture I was driven by the structure of the series of upper windows that reminded me the image of a contact-sheet or a film- strip- a series of images that function sequentially.

Quoting from the classics, the installation uses physical hand gestures taken from various Italian Neo-realistic films, choreographed simultaneously. As the final result will be seen almost like a sign, the installation raises questions about the political tradition – its powerful effect and its ability to be translated and communicates thought the generations.