Talk and personal exhibition “Shared horizons”
On View
Opening with talk by the Artist
Saturday 11 January 2025 – 17.30 / 20.00
Open only on request
Video Projection
11 January 2025 – 25 January 2025
Every weekday afternoon
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Details
In conjunction with the screening at the Havana Biennial of Benedetta Fioravanti’s video “Give me a moment, I leave the light on (intro),” we are pleased to invite you to view the work at our space and to the talk “Shared horizons” with artist BENDETTA FIORAVANTI, the collector DIEGO BERGAMASCHI (representing Seven Gravity Collection, also present in the Biennale with videos from the collection ) and GIACOMO ZAZA (curator of the project “Horizontes fluidos” in Havana Biennale).
After investigating psychophysical exhaustion in the last periods of his research, following a multi-branch vision, Fioravanti began investigating the theme of “reconciliation” and emotional stabilization during his residency in Milan. The work “give me a moment, I leave the light on (intro)”, 2023, is the result of such inner research on the meaning of “reconciliation.” Fioravanti went back to a memory from her own life when she watched the Olympic and athletic games with her family on TV. From there she dwelt on an unclear, unusual gesture that continually came back to him: the gesture made by Antonietta Di Martino, a former high jump athlete, before each of her jumps.
This gesture is related to the psychological practice of Anchoring and Visualization used in coaching for sports, Antonietta Di Martino explains to the artist. Moreover, Di Martino, again, points out that her “anchor” was a childhood memory, when her father would throw her in the air and make her experience the feeling of emptiness and disorientation, while the visualization in her was the movement of her hands before the high jump.
So Fioravanti takes his starting point from the practice of Anchoring and Visualization, that is, a process by which an association is created between experiences, which calls up certain sensations in each of us. Visualization occurs in “disassociating oneself from oneself in order to see oneself outside,” observing things from a different perspective, from a new and foreign point of view to oneself.
The work “give me a moment, I leave the light on (intro)” uses the digital material of Antonietta Di Martino’s moment before the jump, taken from the immense fluid platform of YouTube, and converts the anchoring into the practice of networked pre-picking of content from other users, according to the artist’s methodology, content referring to sensations she explored previously. To these Fioravanti also combines some autobiographical video materials and materials not her own, nor taken from the web, but received from a supervisor of the Fabbrica del Vapore.
However, this video work, with penetrating music and sound composed by Tommaso Pandolfi (Furtherset), represents an “intro” because for Fioravanti visualization is not yet made explicit. At the moment we only witness a visual “anchoring” to reality (experienced from within and recovered in the fluid world) as a preamble to non-rational events that the artist may consider in the visualization.
Fioravanti experiments with the theme of anchoring and visualization in the visual field of moving images, beginning with a confrontation with the athlete and the combination of the foundation of therapy and his artistic modus operandi. He begins a reflection on the process of disorientation and vulnerability that presupposes this very theme. The question remains: how do we keep this psychological practice effective and achieve stabilization within human vulnerability?
Courtesy
Collection Falconi Leidi
Benedetta Fioravanti
Organizer
Organization and Coordination U-ART-P
Curated by Oliviero Falconi
Venue
Via Don Luigi Palazzolo 42
Bergamo, BG
Italy