Installation view The other other, familiar other, curated by Bite the Saurus, Riot Studio, Naples.
Photo Danilo Donzelli.
Inhabiting atlas:
map #28, monete
map #29, scontrino Monoprix, La Marsa, Tunisi, Tunisia
map #35, coperchio di una scatoletta di sardine croata, EUROSPAR, Linz, Austria
map #37, memoria Ram, Imperia, Italia
Installation view Kalki Club, curated by Current project, NESXT, Q35, Turin
Inhabiting atlas:
map #27, butt, Hotel de la Prefecture, Marseille, France
map #12, bus ticket, Genoa, Italy
map #5, flyer of self employed for building and restoration, street Konstantinou Paleologou of Thessaloniki, Greece
map #1, pack of cigarettes, bus station KTEL, Athens, Greece
map #3, football leather ball, Riad Zitoun Lakdim, Marrakech, Morocco
Inhabiting atlas:
map #1, pack of cigarettes, bus station KTEL, Athens
2015
15x10x2 cm
cotton embroidery on pack of cigarette
Inhabiting atlas:
map #20, Crème fraîche tin, supermarket, Medina, Tunis, Tunisia
2016
15x7x7 cm
cotton embroidery on crème fraîche tin
Inhabiting atlas:
map #11, coins: French, Greek and Italian euro, Moroccan and Tunisian dinar
2015-ongoing
variable dimensions
cotton embroidery on coins
Installation view The other other, familiar other, curated by Bite the Saurus, Riot Studio, Naples.
Photo Danilo Donzelli.
Windowscape #1
map #36, oyster-shells, Café de Turin, Nice, France; map #38, metro ticket, Naples, Italy
Inhabiting atlas: through the window-pane
2015 – ongoing
ongoing collection of various objects, wool, cotton
and silk embroidery, installation, mixed media
variable dimensions
Inhabiting Atlas (through the window-pane) is composed of a series of ordinary, discarded objects — found and exchanged by the artist in everyday life and during his travels across various European and Mediterranean cities and places. These objects come together to form a personal archive and an object-based map of time gone by. They are embroidered following the shapes of traces of wear and dirt taken from an old windowpane in the artist’s studio in Imperia — a symbolic and existential border.
The embroidering — a process of appropriation, slow and meditative — captures the ephemeral nature of the objects and their stories. Inhabiting Atlas is nomadic, conceived to travel and to expand. These objects of little value — scraps and remnants — through the practice of embroidery, are transformed into maps, places, and horizons that the gaze retraces. They propose a different temporality that suspends and alters the value of things — recovering and creating a new spatiality and new paradigms.