Residences, Portugal, Amarante, 03 May 2016
SAUDADE DO FUTURO
Site specific installations, 2016
Oak galls and yarns; embroidery on cardboard
For the Museo Municipal Amadeo De Souza Cardoso Giulia Berra (Cremona, Italy, 1985) presents a project strictly connected with architecture that deals both with the contest of Amarante and with the social-economic situation of Portugal in the period of the Artist Residence. It is an utopic dimension, where the references to Nature become aspirations of changing and rebirth.
Between the granite arches a galaxy of oak galls, collected in the city Park, is developed. Galls are “pearls of wood”, caused by plant parasites, that find in these abnormal outgrowths the perfect condition to complete their life cicle. Connected by the web, they become a constellation of planets, a metaphor of the Man/Nature relationship.
On the walls we have instead two panels of azulejos, that present a raffia-on-cardboard- embroideried motif of cicicada spoils. If usually the Tale of the Cicada and the Ant refers to P.I.I.G.S. Situation, the artist instead was inspiredby ancient legends which associate these insects to the misteries of metamorphosis and resurrection. Cicadas, in facts, spend years underground as larvae and burrow their way out and shed their skin when they are ready to become an adult and fly away. So, abandoned spoils are the frozen state of the exoskeleton of a cicada, eternalised teenage state.
Site specific installations, 2016
Oak galls and yarns; embroidery on cardboard
For the Museo Municipal Amadeo De Souza Cardoso Giulia Berra (Cremona, Italy, 1985) presents a project strictly connected with architecture that deals both with the contest of Amarante and with the social-economic situation of Portugal in the period of the Artist Residence. It is an utopic dimension, where the references to Nature become aspirations of changing and rebirth.
Between the granite arches a galaxy of oak galls, collected in the city Park, is developed. Galls are “pearls of wood”, caused by plant parasites, that find in these abnormal outgrowths the perfect condition to complete their life cicle. Connected by the web, they become a constellation of planets, a metaphor of the Man/Nature relationship.
On the walls we have instead two panels of azulejos, that present a raffia-on-cardboard- embroideried motif of cicicada spoils. If usually the Tale of the Cicada and the Ant refers to P.I.I.G.S. Situation, the artist instead was inspiredby ancient legends which associate these insects to the misteries of metamorphosis and resurrection. Cicadas, in facts, spend years underground as larvae and burrow their way out and shed their skin when they are ready to become an adult and fly away. So, abandoned spoils are the frozen state of the exoskeleton of a cicada, eternalised teenage state.
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