Year

2021

Category

site specific multimedia installation

Abstract

«[…] Deprofundis transforms a marginal territory into an underwater, dreamlike environment, where the concept of nature opens up to the residues of human activity, discovered on site, and welcomes them on a par with living species, creating a sensitive, delicate, ambiguous interconnection. The role of the visitor himself becomes uncertain: we are invited to cross the structure in the center of the room and to become aware of our work (as humans) but without resorting to the usual mechanism of “ecological” guilt, which here becomes an imposition, arrogant and sterile. Quatrième____Paysage, in fact, proposes an artistic reinterpretation of the Earth-human relationship in an attempt to relocate the human race in the biosphere, depriving it of its privileged status compared to the non-human beings with whom it lives daily. This thought is inspired by the voice of Timothy Morton, an English philosopher who has upset the way of thinking about the environment […]»

 

Yulia Tikhomirova

 

Visual artists

quatrième____paysage [Lucrezia Negrini, Samir Sayed Abdellattef]

Hardwares/Materials

uv led strips; metal mesh; plastic waste; fans

Exibition

2021
Presented at Tist – This is so temporary [Bologna] on the occasion of the solo exhibition entitled Elsewhere Here part 1 curated by Tist Situations and Adiacenze

 

curatorial text: Yulia Tikhomirova

press: Tist – This is so temporary ; Adiacenze

reviews: Juliet Art Magazine ; Exibart