Framing Devices
dal 5/2/2004 al 13/3/2004
Segnalato da
5/2/2004
Framing Devices
The Agency Gallery, London
A group exhibition of Italian artists Paola Di Bello and Margherita Morgantin and Brasilian artist Camila Sposati. Framing devices explores both subjective and objective modes to represent urban space and architecture. Minimal and theatrical interactions of the subject occur beyond the construction of the photographic image. Here the city is not simply a system of street and buildings, a built environment, but a place to inhabit and visually subvert by artifice.
Camila Sposati, Paola Di Bello, Margherita Morgantin
The Agency is pleased to present Framing Devices a group exhibition of
Italian artists Paola Di Bello and Margherita Morgantin and Brasilian artist
Camila Sposati. The exhibition curated by Lucia Farinati incorporates
photographs, drawings and video projections.
Framing devices explores both subjective and objective modes to represent
urban space and architecture. Minimal and theatrical interactions of the
subject occur beyond the construction of the photographic image. Here the
city is not simply a system of street and buildings, a built environment,
but a place to inhabit and visually subvert by artifice.
Paola Di Bello's "Rear Window" (2000-2003) constitute an ongoing
photographic project of urban views taken from private apartments of
different cities around the world. She uses double exposure to emphasise the
distinction between the inside and the outside of the living space. This
time-space device breaks the visual boundaries between subject and object.
The apartments become a system for taking pictures. By viewing the
photograph, we enter a strangely familiar public/private landscape.
Margherita Morgantin prefers the un-planned space and the in-between
territories of industrial locations as a set for her own architectural
visual constructions. In the video "Inserire il codice al riparo da pensieri
indiscreti" (2001) single frames display drawings on photographs as an
intimate statement about the depicted place. As traces of her performances
she leaves fragile artefacts in desolate wastelands to affirm a transient
and subjective identity. Finally her drawings instead of being urban
development plans are narrative and imaginary visions of everyday life.
Camila Sposati employs bright colours to transform the suburban streets of
São Paulo into a theatrical scene. In her photographs "Rescue smoke" (2003)
the photographer is clearly both actor and spectator of her own play. In
contrast with stereotypical views of São Paulo, the city space is pervaded
by joyful yellow, blue, orange and purple smoke. In loosing their function
as signals for rescuing people, these are performative and visual devices
through which she acknowledges that the landscape is a construction of her
own making.
Image:
Paola Di Bello, Baghgad #3, C- print , 2002
Paola Di Bello lives and works in Milan. Recent exhibitions include: "The
Structure of Survival" curated by Carlos Basualdo, 50th Venice Biennale,
2003; "Rear Window", Galleria Artopia, Milan, 2003 and "In Natura", X
Biennale of Photography, Turin, 2003.
Margherita Morgantin lives and works in Milan and Venice. Recent exhibitions
include: "Private Architecture", Galleria Continua, San Gimignano, 2003;
Progetto Spazio Aperto, Galleria d'Arte Moderna, Bologna, 2003 and Anomalie
Italienne # 2, Public > Xing, Paris, 2003.
Camila Sposati lives and works in London and Sao Paolo. Recent exhibitions
include: "Insert", Cuchifritos Art Gallery, New York, 2003; "A mixture of
several unrelated things", Cable Factory, Helsinki, 2003 and "Landscape
Trauma", The Gallery-Southwark Park, London, 2001.
Private View 6 Feb, 6-9pm
Representing: Faisal Abdu'Allah, Ken Lum, Seamus Nicolson, Ross Sinclair,
Zineb Sedira, John PaulTiney, Raymond Yap, Vanessa Able Working with: Zoe
Leonard, Kazuo Katase, Thad Strode
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