« NAUGHTS & CROSSES » BY SEAMUS FARRELL
CURATED BY KATIA ANGUELOVA & ALESSANDRA POGGIANTI
Seamus Farrell, an Irish-Parisian artist also participating in « the Emergency Biennale in Chechnya », as a sequel to his one man show at Casino Luxembourg, curated by Enrico Lunghi, has been invited by Katia Anguelova & Alessandra Poggianti to produce a series of adapted/sitespecific proposals for Isola Art Center, with support & help from N.O.Gallery.
Seamus Farrell, as in his other exhibitions, will use, reuse, reduce and recycle space, materials and ideas, giving them a new edge. In parallel, the artist will show on the project Suitcase Illuminated #2 a video wall entitled Naughts & Crosses.
Suitcase Illuminated Illuminated is a project by Katia Anguelova and Alessandra Poggianti aimed at identifying a series of projects/shows that attempt to single out video pieces and other art media from different countries and “making them travel”, outlining an immaterial, nomadic geography.
After the exhibition of Mexican artists chosen by Paola Santoscoy, curator for the Museo Tamayo in Mexico City, this second special project presents a work by Seamus Farrell.
In collaboration with doctorl (soundtrack), a looped sequence of 3mn super8 b&w film depicts portraits that follow each other in slow motion in a progressive grid presentation, like samples of facial expressions of friends & family.
The aim is not to recall the past or to awaken what is definitively gone, but rather -as Roland Barthes would have put it- to testify that what we see is not a memory nor a reconstruction, but realities in their past state = in front of the photograph, the consciousness doesn’t necessarily take the nostalgic path/memory lane of remembering, but simply the certainty of what has been.
With help and support from N.O. Gallery, Milan.
