Breath Elsewhere Drawing

Kali Jones was born in Canada in 1970. Her artistic formation began in France, under the painter Paul Courtin who taught her ways of observing the palpitation of life in the material world and the art of giving form to her intuitions. The artist works with photography, drawing, collage, video and sound installation and performance art. Her interest in various cultures has taken her across the world from China to Europe to the Middle East. Her projects increasingly involve multiple partners and points of view such as the The Certainty of Shadow, a video installation with the Syrian poet Adonis and the artist Maurizio Ruggiano which investigates the nature of perception, inspired by Plato's metaphor of the Cave and sufi concepts of transformation. In How Deep is the Ocean?, she created an installation based on the rapport between form and memory, paper sculptures which materialize memories of violence in the body.  Green Languages/Linguaggi Verdi, co-curated with the botanist Manlio Speciale involved site specific installations and performances in the Botanical Gardens of Palermo. Interazioni Sonore - an interactive sound installation of magnified sounds recorded in the gardens met with voices of the public, creating an improvised microcosmic jungle. A work by Maurizio Ruggiano and Kali Jones in the Carolina Greenhouse. The Island of the Color Blind created in the context of Earth Day 2017 was a collaboration with Maurizio Ruggiano, Marta Romaszkan, Clelia Bartoli and unaccompanied Minors studying at the CPIA in Palermo. It involved a body movement workshop studying the form and growth of plants which was then documented by the youths in photographs and drawings. Maurizio created an animation from the project. In 2019, inspired by Giovanni Sollima's N-ICE Cello, the artist created an imaginary visual score and an installation of drawings and photographs based on the trasformative nature of water, global warming and our rapport with this element on a macro an micro level. Isole, an installation taking the form of a giant whale, incorporating photographs and drawings of bird flight patterns, human migration and the transformation of water - the visual tracking of movement through spy planes and drones, the human desire to control borders. Kali Jones is currently elaborating "We are such stuff as dreams are made on", a "work in progress" video performance which was first presented at the MACRO in Rome in November, 2019.