Exhibitions, Belgium, Bruxelles, Brussels, 19 May 2010
CAGES - LOREDANA LONGO Solo Exhibition
video/installation/object d’art/drawings
curator ANTONIO AREVALO
opening to september 19 2010
RUE DES CHEVALIERS 22 – 1050 BRUXELLES
Loredana Longo(1967), lives and works in Catania (Italy)
The artist’s research started from a thorough reflection on her own image, portrayed by photography, installations, and performances. Later on, this work of a strictly autobiographic variety was taken a ahead by videos, focusing on the family’s universe, whose manifold contradictions are vividly represented by Loredana. Tensions and con flicts emerging at home, as accounted for by the step Explosion project, allow the artist to go through the whole range of the most complex psychological and social dynamics. Carefully displayed domestic settings are suddenly and traumatically blown up and then faithfully rebuilt by reassembling the damaged pieces. All stages of the deconstruction/reconstruction process are video-tape and endlessly replicated in loop. Thus, the domestic-private environment becomes a multifaceted battleground, and an archetypal model of social relationships at large.
Her first solo show in Brussels will be curated by Antonio Arévalo and provides a new focus, as effectively epitomized by the title. CAGES explicitly alludes to strictly personal inner anguishes, aptly embodied by a claustrophobic jail. Both the body and the social setting fade away or, more properly, take a new shape, of unusual symbolic strength. Behind the bars, a painful rite of self-annihilation and self-acknowledgement takes place: unfree as it is, the Ego accepts to identify with the cage, as a cage is after all needed to escape, to grasp the notion, and to seize the opportunity, of an escape. A real opportunity, though? Or just the illusion of? Indeed, the cages shine: their bars, their mirrors, their dazzling light bulbs are designed to emphasize a frightening glamour, both attractive and repulsive; and the whole scenery amounts to an architectonic trompe-l’œil, whereby spaces are endlessly multiplied and multipliable by the desire for freedom, while staying inexorably poky when one effectively tries to trespass them. After all – the artist suggests – way outs are not readily available, they are perhaps just virtual exits; and the real ones are possibly not even looked for, since the individual might be convinced (and happy) that freedom is nothing more than a sensation, a state of mind.
info
art director rosanna musumeci mb.+32(0)491251133
available Monday- Sunday by appointment
gallery/space rue des chevaliers,22 1050 Bruxelles
contact
info@artecontemporaneact.com
www.artecontemporaneact.com
www.artesud.it
BE +32(0)491251133 IT +39330692388
FR +33(0)140159921 +33(0)603597288
IT +39 095 7253101 +39 330692388
video/installation/object d’art/drawings
curator ANTONIO AREVALO
opening to september 19 2010
RUE DES CHEVALIERS 22 – 1050 BRUXELLES
Loredana Longo(1967), lives and works in Catania (Italy)
The artist’s research started from a thorough reflection on her own image, portrayed by photography, installations, and performances. Later on, this work of a strictly autobiographic variety was taken a ahead by videos, focusing on the family’s universe, whose manifold contradictions are vividly represented by Loredana. Tensions and con flicts emerging at home, as accounted for by the step Explosion project, allow the artist to go through the whole range of the most complex psychological and social dynamics. Carefully displayed domestic settings are suddenly and traumatically blown up and then faithfully rebuilt by reassembling the damaged pieces. All stages of the deconstruction/reconstruction process are video-tape and endlessly replicated in loop. Thus, the domestic-private environment becomes a multifaceted battleground, and an archetypal model of social relationships at large.
Her first solo show in Brussels will be curated by Antonio Arévalo and provides a new focus, as effectively epitomized by the title. CAGES explicitly alludes to strictly personal inner anguishes, aptly embodied by a claustrophobic jail. Both the body and the social setting fade away or, more properly, take a new shape, of unusual symbolic strength. Behind the bars, a painful rite of self-annihilation and self-acknowledgement takes place: unfree as it is, the Ego accepts to identify with the cage, as a cage is after all needed to escape, to grasp the notion, and to seize the opportunity, of an escape. A real opportunity, though? Or just the illusion of? Indeed, the cages shine: their bars, their mirrors, their dazzling light bulbs are designed to emphasize a frightening glamour, both attractive and repulsive; and the whole scenery amounts to an architectonic trompe-l’œil, whereby spaces are endlessly multiplied and multipliable by the desire for freedom, while staying inexorably poky when one effectively tries to trespass them. After all – the artist suggests – way outs are not readily available, they are perhaps just virtual exits; and the real ones are possibly not even looked for, since the individual might be convinced (and happy) that freedom is nothing more than a sensation, a state of mind.
info
art director rosanna musumeci mb.+32(0)491251133
available Monday- Sunday by appointment
gallery/space rue des chevaliers,22 1050 Bruxelles
contact
info@artecontemporaneact.com
www.artecontemporaneact.com
www.artesud.it
BE +32(0)491251133 IT +39330692388
FR +33(0)140159921 +33(0)603597288
IT +39 095 7253101 +39 330692388
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