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Saudade do Futuro Installation
Italy
Installation, Environmental on Paper
Size: 119 W x 160 H x 79 D in
About The Artwork
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.
Details & Dimensions
Installation:Environmental on Paper
Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork
Size:119 W x 160 H x 79 D in
Frame:Not Framed
Ready to Hang:No
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Italy
Giulia Berra was born on the 3rd of April 1985 in Cremona (Italy). She lives and works in Cremona. "Contemporary Art loves great dimensions, immersive installations, interaction, display, grandeur. I reserve for me another glance. Close, tactile. Insects, galls, chrysalises: little fragile things, something to look with respect for, without touching. It's a familiar dimension, but not intimate, like if we returned to the real beginnings of Natural Sciences reformulating questions in another way.I don't like private tellings behind the works, or gender speaking. When I compare myself with Nature I'm not a woman but a human being. I investigate empty spaces, mutations, fluctuations, trying to understand their borders. I study processes, biological cycles and their interactions, their limits. The insects she use are taken from old collections, or I have found them dead in Butterfly Oasis or in Nature" If you want to contact me: giuliaberrante |at| gmail.com
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