Archiviato in: artisti in residenza | Tag: Line Bruntse, O'Air, O'Artoteca, shadow
Often uninterested on the blurred things I am finding myself wrapped in a blurred sense of blurriness.
It has been a differently-productive morning yesterday. But I am coming up with a process for my (half)residence at O’Artoteca. I am being basically driven throughout this experience by the artists’ voices and their processes of creating. So I consider more productive to follow the impressions and ideas I get from their talking and working either together or separately (they staying here, me in Rome.) Time will come to concentrate on the actual art pieces.
There are about three weeks to go to the complexion of O’A.I.R. and I am basically wondering around personal toughs I then wrote on this my scratch pad. The second set of scattered notes comes from Line’s approach to her residence. Surprisingly her actual research topic differs from what I have imagined. She is investigating the shadow.
Playing the game of the “aware viewer in the space” that was my architectural exploration of this past week made me start experiencing the feeling of the space. It can be a sense of protection I feel, or amazement – for example as in the monumental cathedral in Rome – or even a neutral feeling – as inside an almost empty white box of a gallery that has being set up.
Line is instead researching directly on the paper through her drawings, almost even not considering her surroundings. Though she is still very much concerned about the structured space around. In fact the untouchable shape of the object that the shadow represents is researched in the almost empty room. She has working on basic elements (shape, and surface.) Then, through the interaction between the gallery’s walls, and her shapes it seems as if she is working to comprehend the feelings and express them.
The idea of the shadow brings me toward the territory of “non touchable existence.” The unsurprising element that is always there but has no existence per se since it becomes a presence only in relation to its object. The shadow is contained within two dimensions. The space flattened. It “is a region of darkness where light is blocked by an object. It occupies the space behind an opaque object with light in front of it.” Still it is unconceivable without the external surrounding and the light that models its shape.
I felt I may not be getting anywhere. But this is part of the challenge I believe. We have been put together without any indication. I am trying to understand my way through the idea of sharing. And it is helpful. In fact even if I feel a sense of blurriness, confusion, and incomprehension every confrontation allows me to figure out a step to follow toward the completion of this project.
