Luana Perilli
dal 21/7/2010 al 11/8/2010
Segnalato da
21/7/2010
Luana Perilli
SybinQ Art Project, London
So Sweet is the Torment . Luana's practice is focused on language, instruction for use and memory. She is interested in the concept of refrain, of breaking a sequence and therefore disconnecting the objects from their normal function, making them, according to Duchamp's lesson, bachelors. Perilli uses the mediums in a spurious way, putting audio and video in relation to other forms of narrative by images.
curated by sybin
The Bay Window Project continues exploring the concepts of perception and representation by using the ordinary frame of a window as a display device, disconnecting it from its normal function of a private threshold.
The second artist invited to exhibit in The Bay Window is LUANA PERILLI.
Luana’s practice is focused on language, instruction for use and memory. She is interested in the concept of refrain, of breaking a sequence and therefore disconnecting the objects from their normal function, making them, according to Duchamp’s lesson, “bachelors”. Perilli uses the mediums in a spurious way, putting audio and video in relation to other forms of narrative by images. Her research started through theatre, where a compromise between the scenic illusions and the representation of reality always stands: since then, she has been looking for a relation between automatisms and their reproducibility. This is her first solo show in London.
For The Bay Window Project, Luana is presenting the video Sì Dolce è il Tormento, 2009 (duration: 1’09’’. Courtesy: The Gallery Apart, Rome).
The title – So Sweet is the Torment – refers to a tune conceived by the Italian composer Monteverdi in the XVII century for a castrato voice. In a video which features objects, the castrato is perceived as the first bachelor, a human being deprived of his reproductive function and turned to a full-blown singing machine. In opposition to this, ordinary objects are shown coming to life, satisfying that little poetic childhood fantasy about the secret life of toys when the house is empty. However, these objects cannot have a life of their own: the imprint of those who inhabited the house for a temporary period of time and were then replaced by others determines their will. In a present time characterised by people’s frantic mobility, the concept of home has become transient, and houses are transformed into spaces concentrating the residual energy of different lives. The objects are then silent witnesses of desires, frustrations, hopes, dreams and little daily cruelties of the household occupants. The video spies on them behaving in a passionate and incongruent way, as to summarise in a whole act their unresolved wish of becoming human, which, according to the artist, is often imbued with cynicism.
INFORMATION ABOUT THE ARTIST:
LUANA PERILLI - Born in Rome, 1981, where she currently lives and works. Selected Solo Shows: 2009 – Manutenzione sentimentale della macchina celibe, The Gallery Apart, Rome; 2006 - Tattile Duttile, V.M.21 Arte Contemporanea, Rome; 2005 - Why?, The Gallery Apart at Fondazione Pastificio Cerere, Rome. Selected Group Shows: 2010 – She Devil IV, Studio Stefania Miscetti, Rome; 2009 - Video as Video: Rewind To Form, International ART Affairs, Washington, DC; 2008 - 15° Quadriennale d’Arte di Roma, Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome; 2006 - Dissertare/Disertare, CIAC-Centro Internazionale per l’Arte Contemporanea, Castello Colonna, Genazzano (RM).
To respect The Bay Window’s neighborhood, the video will be shown with the sound at the opening only and will then be projected muted from 7:30 to 11:30 pm.
Opening Thursday 22 July 2010 at 7:30 pm.
The artist will attend.
SybinQ Art Projects
Cleveland Street, London W1T 6NW.
Hours: Monday-Sunday from 7:30 to 11:30 pm
Free admission