Projection Paintings
Projection Paintings are a series of experimental works arranging moving images, gifs or videos, and projecting them onto oil paintings created from a video still.
Focused on themes of 'home', projection paintings also innately transmit a feminine nostalgia experienced through social constructs and gender norms. With subtle, time-lapsed movements the videos communicate a passage of time and the romance of the changing sunlight, as well as disagreeable interruptions caused by wind or other elements. The painting behind the video acts as a stabilizer, yet questions light and color, becoming an optical illusion that can often be mistaken for a filtered effect applied in video editing. The image is united through two different mediums, underlining the duality of the work itself.
8640 Part II
"Nonfinito"
, Florence, Italy
Video projection over Oil on canvas
157 X 89 cm (2 canvasses)
Video 3:17", looped
2017
Laundry
"Vacancy"
Residenza E'poca, Florence, Italy
Video projection over Oil on canvas
157 X 89 cm
Video :32", looped
2016
Helen
An audio installation about a long lost friend played through a mnemonic device: the tin-can telephone.
Exhibited at Residenza E'poca in Florence, 2016
Clothes
A performance and video installation dividing and identifying old clothing.
I recorded myself splitting the items into piles, questioning my personal value and memory of each piece. This video was edited with additional audio reconsidering the actions. FInally, the video was played in the exact space the action took place, with all clothing remaining untouched on the floor where they were dropped during the recording.
The installation took place at Residenza E'poca in Florence, Italy in December of 2016.
A tour of completion
This work was created after finding an abandoned book of glass slides during a trip to Palermo, Sicily. The slides held images of historic monuments and paintings.
Five slides were missing, but the book came with a guided explanation of each image. I found the locations of the missing images and traveled to each city: Genoa, Pisa, Verona, Senigallia and Florence. Retaking photographs of missing images more than 30 years later, I created new slides to complete the album.
Commenting on the timelessness of monuments within Italy, the album is juxtaposed with the not-so timeless actions associated with loss and recovery. The work was displayed at Museo di Anthropology and Ethnology for the group exhibition Body Archives 4 curated by Dejan Atanackovic in Florence, Italy, April of 2016.
Chipped Teeth
Chipped Teeth recounts a personal history, digesting through metaphor. This is an ongoing project.
Tubà Sinestra
A short video about identity and communication, as well as a personal reflection on loss and the human body.
Drawing from a debilitating experience of the removal of the artist's left fallopian tube and the life inside of it, this work aims to underline the theme of the female vessel as it bridges itself between different cultures and languages.
Papa
[video trailer to installation]
A video trailer meant to be a humorous introduction to a larger body of work.
Originally an audio piece to be listened to with three photographs of the Pope taken by the artist, this work aims to question personal relationships with the catholic church, organised religion, and the existence of God.
Played at Reactions to Divine Beauty, at Palazzo Strozzi, in partnership with Studio Art College International and organized by Daria Fildaro.