Janet Lilo, Engagement, video still, 2013
September 2015
Dear Janet,
The last time we met in person was November 2014. You were in France on a site visit for an exhibition project and I came from Italy to see you.
Just Human
Speranza
Renato Leotta, image from Favignana, 2016
The first night he got on the island, after a bumpy ferry ride, the stars were bright overhead and he felt like being out of time but also gently alive. Continue reading: http://incurva.org/2016-renato-leotta/#cr Caterina Riva, 2016
Published in Renato Leotta’s Aventura, Aventura, Peripezia published by Madragoa, Lisbon
Les Limbes [EN-FR]
Exhibition view of Les Limbes at La Galerie, Noisy-le-Sec, Photo: Pierre Antoine, 2016
How do you keep something current?
How can you keep something alive that became part of you in a specific place, at a specific time, with someone specific?
How can this private feeling become public and meaningful to other people, people you have never met, people you have just met, people you will eventually meet?
Caterina Riva, 2016
Download complete PDF (FR-ENG) here
FormContent
It’s not for reading, it’s for making, 2009. Collection of legs by Hans-Peter Feldmann
Dear FormContent,
How are you?
We have been separated for quite some time but I loved you very much in your infancy and cared for you when you had a name, a home in London (moving from an arch on Brick Road to a studio complex in crane infested Dalston that was gearing up for the Olympics) but you were still growing up and deciding what you wanted to become. It was a playful phase, full of experiments and people and it entailed quite a bit of travelling too.
Stressed Environment [IT]
Davide Savorani, Stressed environment, 2016. Installation at Marselleria, Courtesy the artist and Marselleria.
La tua palestra di riferimento e’ Technogym.
Ti piacciono le serie in streaming, le guardi in lingua originale.
Mangi un sacco di banane: ce ne sono dappertutto, nella tua cucina, abbandonate in giro nel tuo studio, hanno la buccia nera come se fossero dei fossili del paleozoico.
Sei arrabbiato. Sei catatonica. Che noia!
Leggi David Foster Wallace, e’ una lettura lenta, impegnativa. I paragrafi devono essere letti e riletti. Mi sento stupida la maggior parte del tempo.
La routine ti spaventa ma ne sei prigioniero. Quante volte hai controllato Instagram oggi? Hai voglia di mettere qualcosa sotto i denti. Non hai voglia di uscire ma hai promesso a F. che sarai a quella inaugurazione. In realtà hai voglia di Tinder. Pensi a quello dell’altra volta e la mano ti scivola giù tra i pantaloni.
Il dinamismo e’ la tua caratteristica, la persegui nei tuoi disegni, nelle coreografie che immagini, nei fili che tirano idee e sculture, ci sono dei personaggi futuribili fatti in materiale plastico, sono personaggi che vivono nella tua galassia. Si esercitano in una palestra o in un parco pubblico, hanno desiderio di mettere un po’ d’olio sui muscoli del cuore.
Caterina Riva, 2016
More on: http://atpdiary.com/davide-savorani/
The Eyes of Talia Chetrit
Talia Chetrit, Public Billboard, LAXART, Los Angeles, 2014
Looking at Talia Chetrit’s photographs feels like being catapulted on the set of a 1970s thriller, think 3 Days of the Condor, presumably shot in New York’s exteriors and favouring birds’ eye views to scan someone in the crowd or singling out a detail among the choreography of people moving on the streets below. Frozen time is photography’s prerogative yet in Chetrit’s work the settings and the choice of the grain give a sense of an explicit temporality, which depicts a reality as well as constructing a fiction.
Franti, Out!
On Stamm
Diego Marcon, Untitled (Head falling 02&05), 2015. Courtesy the artist.
Careof is a not-for-profit space in Milan hosted in a public architectural complex called La Fabbrica del Vapore (The Steam Factory) which, at the beginning of the 1900s, was where trams were built. The site is next to the calm beauty of Cimitero Monumentale, a tidy layout of trees and tombs of various styles and sizes. On the opposite side is the lively Chinatown, always buzzing with people, plenty of shops and more recently trendy bars serving bubble tea.
Caterina Riva, 2015
