Open studios 2021

Public intervention,
Video projection,
Drawing/site-specific installation,
installation and installation with sound.

33 Officina Creativa Residency, Toffia

Collaboration with Karolina Rupp and Rachel Pursglove

At the end of our residency at 33 Officina Creativa Residency we presented our first group show in the theatre space in Toffia where we showed five works that together became a collective respons to the culture, place and our time there.

“When the everyday becomes art”
The exhibition performance that the three artists presented in the Toffia theater, through the
stillness of the table set for a perpetual breakfast that filled the stage, the threads that housed
the clothes of their “walking", the rhythmic signs, the images and sounds - almost hypnotic
words, it was an immersion in the space and time of the everyday life.

An art form that, as Beuys said, is capable of acting on the relationship between man and
nature. Karolina, Hanne and Rachel have given objects, and gestures, a new possibility of form
and breath.

(Pino Grossi, artist Toffia Italy)

“Poem For Toffia”,Public Intervention
A4 printout of a poem translated into Italian and placed on community notice boards and points of interest around the small town of Toffia.
Dimensions: A4 – 60 lines, 9 copies

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“Fragments of Toffia”, Video Projection.
Footage of our time spent in Toffia and the surrounding areas, shown unedited and in chronological order from the date of our arrival.
Materials: Video (Recorded on a 90s Sony Handycam Video Camera), projector, double-layered fabric. Dimensions: 75 x 126 cm (projection)

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“Masterpiece”, Drawing/ Site-Specific Installation 2021
Collaborative drawing of mark-making using crayon attached to the end of 1 metre sticks and presented amidst a 13th Century Italian Fresco.
Materials: Black lumber crayon, paper, wooden frame with metal stand.
Dimensions: 151 x 98 cm

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“Kitchen Table”, Installation, 2021
Remnants of breakfast including crumbs
Materials: Wooden table, chairs, dirty plates/cups/glasses/cutlery, coffee pots, oven mitts, almost empty jar of honey, salt, jam, pepper, pieces of bread/cheese/tomato, chopping knife, half empty bottles of water/milk.
Dimensions: 80 x 168 x 73 cm

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“Washing Line”, Installation with sound, 2021

Sound. 00.03.17. Loop
Materials: Nails, 3 lines of string, 24 items of clothing (hiking gear), bench, 2 speakers either side of the bench playing sounds of walking, recorded during one of our group walks.
Dimensions: Variable

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(Audio Excerpt: Washing Line. 30 sec )