Rossella Biscotti
dal 26/5/2014 al 16/8/2014
Segnalato da
26/5/2014
Rossella Biscotti
Wiels - Contemporary Art Center, Bruxelles
The artist creates environments architectures, constructed from materials which bear traces of individual destinies and collective endeavours. The exhibition revisits sites of punishment such as the women's prison on Giudecca in Venice.
For her first solo exhibition in Belgium, acclaimed Italian artist Rossella Biscotti draws a trajectory across spaces that evoke important historical processes and links them to the sciences of the mind. The artist creates environments and unmonumental architectures, constructed from materials which bear traces of individual destinies and collective endeavours. Informed by research and collaborations Biscotti’s method consists of interweaving narratives in relation to the concrete and discrete architecture of memory, dreams and ideas. The exhibition revisits sites of punishment such as the women’s prison on Giudecca in Venice, the cells designed for life imprisonment on the Santo Stefano Island, or the courtroom where radical leftists were tried in the 1980s in Rome. From this gathering of works emerges the ability of the human mind to resist oppression, such as in the re-enactment of the trial where engaged personalities from Brussels translate selections from the trial recordings. Besides language, scientific techniques are used to explore the imaginary: whether it be through photographic prints of anatomical cross-sections or the recorded dreamscapes of inmates, Biscotti poignantly sketches out the inner workings of a human brain.
Image: Rossella Biscotti, I dreamt that you changed into a cat… gatto… ha ha ha, 2013.
Opening 27th May from 19.30
Wiels - Contemporary Art Center,
Avenue Van Volxem, 354- Bruxelles-Belgium. Wednesday – Sunday: 11.00 – 18.00.
8 € Individual visitor. 5 € Student.