Cristina Gardumi

For me, drawing is a kind of anthropological investigation – it helps me to better understand the reality surrounding me, who lives there, and myself as part of this bigger picture. I keenly feel the lack of that stability, that common foundation on which – according to social conventions – we build lives: a tribe, or religion, where we can recognise ourselves. We all share the day-to-day. Human beings in ancient times had myths and legends to reassure them and align their feelings with. Today we are absent-minded, with short attention spans – we grasp the here and now, with all its potential instability and sudden transformations. What I draw gives me a way of navigating this complexity.

“It is a kind of search, through the humdrum minutiae of everyday life, places beyond those pertaining to the official concept of 'sacred' (religion, nations, moral conventions), to reveal my sacred with a few small actions, setting the boundary from where I no longer operate on the basis of the ordinary but I am penetrated by a radically different world, different to the ordinary world like fire is to water. These actions are like tears in a veil, a breach where a world of revelations can pass through.”

M.LEIRIS "Il sacro nella vita quotid...

Academy of Fine Arts G.B. Cignaroli, Verona, Italy (pailnting)
Academy of dramatic art Silvio d'Amico, Rome, Acting (acting)

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2017

"IMPLUMA", ex-asylum and blind windows around the city, Laiatico, Pisa, Italy.

“Puellae” (ovvero “Educazione al nascondimento della fanciulla contemporanea”), 79rosso art gallery, Firenze, Italia.

2016
​”Il bosco è dentro”, solo exhibition curated by Luca Nannipieri, Viacavourcinquantasette, Pisa, Italia.

2015
“Mädchen/wrinkle vacuum elastomer/dry preservation of fairy damsels met in forest wide” curated by Alessandra Timossi & Maurizio Vallebona, a b o u t n e s s contemporary art, Genova, Italia.
“Adults don’t exist/Gli adulti non esistono” solo exhibition, curated by Beatrice Giovannoni, Sala Dogana, Genova, Italia.

2014
“My little house”, residenza artistica domestica curated by Fulvio Ravagnani, Milano, Italia.

2012
“Girlbook_Boybook”, a cura di Chiara Pirozzi, Dino Morra Arte Contemporanea, Napoli, Italia.


MOSTRE COLLETTIVE

2017
The Palace International Film Festival, Wroclav, Poland.
Tricky Women International Animated Film Festival, Kulturhaus, Vienna, Austria.

2016
La tela infinita, Centro Espositivo Villa Pacchiani, Santa Croce sull’Arno (PI), Italia.
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AAF Affordable art fair, Milano ( Warsteiner Young Talents contest), Italia.
“Carta bianca” curated by Ann...