Lara Favaretto
dal 10/6/2010 al 29/7/2010
Segnalato da
10/6/2010
Lara Favaretto
Klosterfelde, Berlin
Out of It
Out of It. Since her early performances, installations and objects, Lara Favaretto has worked much with the ambivalence between the carnevalesque and the feeling of resignation or failure. For instance in the piece Twistle (2004) which consists of an air compressor connected to a timer, activating a whistle at regular intervals. Favaretto often chooses the standard version of an object, and by isolating it, renders its specific characteristics visible to a tragic-comical extent. Sometimes it is the spectator's interaction with her works that actually fulfills their meaning, like in Figlio unico (2004), a tree covered with felt which drops its branches whenever someone tries to sit underneath. Favaretto creates situations of the playful and the paradoxical, familiar to us from Federico Fellini films, situations which in their uneconomical impracticality and enjoyable absurdity always also entail a critique of the existing order.