Thursday 5 August 2010

The Bay Window Project: Luana Perilli


THE BAY WINDOW PROJECT

Six Artists in a Frame
curated by 
sybin

OPENING: Thursday 22 July at 7:30 pm
Until Thursday 12 August.


SybinQ Art Project
The window on 
Cleveland Street
London W1T 6NW


Tube: Great Portland Street
(the window is visible when Cleveland St meets Carburton St)


Information: sybin@inwind.it

The Bay Window Project continues exploring the concepts of perception and representation by using the ordinary frame of a window as a display device, disconnecting it from its normal function of a private threshold.

The second artist invited to exhibit in The Bay Window is LUANA PERILLI. 
(Born in Rome, 1981, where she currently lives and works).

Exhibiting in London for the first time, Luana’s choice of expression is focused on language, instruction for use and memory. She is interested in the concept of refrain, of breaking a sequence and therefore disconnecting the objects from their normal function, making them, according to Duchamp’s lesson, “bachelors”. Perilli uses the mediums in a spurious way, putting audio and video in relation to other forms of narrative by images. Her research started through theatre, where a compromise between the scenic illusions and the representation of reality always stands: since then, she has been looking for a relation between automatisms and their reproducibility.

For The Bay Window Project, Luana is presenting the video Sì Dolce è il Tormento, 2009 
(duration: 1’09’’. Courtesy: The Gallery Apart, Rome).

The title – So Sweet is the Torment – refers to a tune conceived by the Italian composer Monteverdi in the XVII century for a castrato voice. In a video which features objects, the castrato is perceived as the first bachelor, a human being deprived of his reproductive function and turned to a full-blown singing machine. In opposition to this, ordinary objects are shown coming to life, satisfying that little poetic childhood fantasy about the secret life of toys when the house is empty. However, these objects cannot have a life of their own: the imprint of those who inhabited the house for a temporary period of time and were then replaced by others determines their will. In a present time characterised by people’s frantic mobility, the concept of home has become transient, and houses are transformed into spaces concentrating the residual energy of different lives. The objects are then silent witnesses of desires, frustrations, hopes, dreams and little daily cruelties of the household occupants. The video spies on them behaving in a passionate and incongruent way, as to summarise in a whole act their unresolved wish of becoming human, which, according to the artist, is often imbued with cynicism. 

To respect The Bay Window’s neighborhood, the video will be shown with the sound at the opening only and will then be projected muted from 9 to 11:30 pm every day.

The Bay Window Project is kindly supported by Invite Me to Dinner


NEXT: SALVATORE MAURO in August.

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