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Francesca Grilli
'EFFLUVIA',
EFFLUVIA
The image is a creature whose essence is to be a species, a visibility
or appearance. Special is the creature, whose essence coincides with its possible to see, with his species. Special is the creature that
coincides with what is visible, with its revelation.
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The mirror is where we discover that we have an image and, together, that it can be separate from us, that our species, or “imago” is not ours. Between the perception of the reflected image and an identification with it, there is a range, that the medieval poets called love. The mirror of Narcissus is in this sense, the source of love, the unconceivable and fierce experience that the image is and is not our image.
Giorgio Agamben, Profanazioni
My research will focus on the function and materials used in the photography of the occult present in the begining of last century: such as a ghost presences, invisible walls, floating objects, and the popular seanse. By creating a new multi-layered image, I want to investigate the multiplicity of different identities expressed through specific materials of the occult. With the development of this project I’d like to focus on issues of energy and architecture. In particular, I’d like to investigate my personal experience that becomes a 'bridge' for the exchange or the ongoing movement between the intimate sphere and its visible outer appeareance. I’m interested in the active and passive duality in which the parties involved in the physical experience continually exchange their roles and the their energy.
Francesca Grilli (1978)
www.francescagrilli.com
Francesca Grilli (born in Bologna, Italy) lives and works in Amsterdam. She graduated at ISIA, Urbino, Italy and attended the Advanced Course in Visual Arts at Fondazione Antonio Ratti, Como, Italy in 2005. Between 2006 and 2008 she was a resident artist at the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten in Amsterdam. |
