How can one leaf become the map of another experience?

Mappa del perimetro del Site

Elisa Faletti

Student

Elisa Faletti

Academic staff

Gerhard Glüher Stefano Riba Stephan August Schmidt-Wulffen

Course

Studio Exhibit – When Attitudes Become Re-form

Program

BA Major Art

Semester

2020/21 SS

Digital photo, 100 x 67 cm each

Inspired by my previous work, the process of a new artwork was developed. This time, the Site was a vineyard located in a different place. I mapped the Site by walking with GPS though its whole area and drew the mapping process on some leaves taken from the same place. The traces of the paintings become visible only when the leaves are in the sunlight direction: if the light passes through them, the map stands out.

The documentation of the Site is now on two levels. On the one hand, there is a map of the perimeter of the Site. On the other hand, there are natural elements of the same place.

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A project made in the course

Studio Exhibit – When Attitudes Become Re-form

‘When Attitudes Become Form’ was a groundbreaking exhibition held in 1969 in Bern and re-staged in Venice in 2013 at Prada Foundation. During the summer semester of AY 2019-2020, students were invited to choose, out of the original show, one artist each and to reconstruct the work. They were also expected to produce a work of their own, which would resonate with their replica experience. Important was to introduce the concept of the artist as participant in an ongoing discourse, throughout appropriation and translation.

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