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CIRCUS MEME, 2008
Faidiga
curator Ottica TV
co-curators Paul Malone
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Fabiola
(Italy)
Born in 1958 in Triest, Italy, where she lives and works. She collaborates
with “Group 78 International Contemporary Art in Triest and has participated
in projects curated by the Italian art critic Maria Campitelli (Natura Naturans/
Public Art). These include Lavoro d’ufficio (Office Works), Il viaggio (The Travel),
Le madri al mare (Mothers at the Sea), Gli immortali e il dialogo sull’acqua
(The Immortals and the Dialogue on the Water), La misura è colma
(That’s the last straw!) and the last project Circus Meme.
She has worked in various media including photography, video, sculpture,
performance and collage. She has taken part in solo and group exhibitions
including the Palazzo Costanzi (Trieste), Galleria Juliet (Trieste), Teatro Miela
(Trieste), Palazzo Bricherasio (Torino), Stand Juliet (Bologna), Punt Gallery
(Amsterdam), Galleria Ground’s Art (Parma), Palazzo Pretorio (Capodistria
– SLO), Art in Perpetuily Trust Gallery – Tara Bryan Gallery – The Center
for Creative Collaboration (London), Galleria Plevnik Kronkowska (Celje -SLO).
www.a2arts.co.uk/faidiga
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS:
2010 CIRCUS MEME, Presentazione Progetto, Fondazione Bevilacqua
La Masa, Palazzetto Tito, Venezia, IT (solo) DERIVELAB / The Center for Creative
Collaboration, London, UK (group) / ADMISSION FREE, Celje, RS (group) /
Solutori Immaginari, Teatro Miela, Trieste IT (group) / CATODICA 4 / Stazione Rogers,
Trieste, IT (group) / 2009 La Città Radiosa, Stazione Rogers, Trieste, IT (group) /
Rassegna 0910, Strassoldo, Udine, IT (group) / Festival Internazionale ELECTRIC RATS
DREAM VIDEO DREAM / Galleria Plevnik Kronkowska, Celje, RS (group) /
TRIESTE FILM FESTIVAL, Cinema Ariston, Trieste, IT (solo) / 2008 CIRCUS MEME,
Biblioteca Statale Isontina (Puppet Festival), Gorizia, IT (solo) / Hotel Neptun,
Presentazione Progetto, Isola di Brioni, HR (solo) / Museo d’arte moderna Ugo Carà,
Muggia, Trieste, IT (solo) / Anteprima – Palazzo Pretorio, Capodistria, SI (solo) /
PERPETUUM MOBILE, APT Gallery, London, UK (group) / MANINFESTO, Villa Manin,
Codroipo, Udine, IT (group) / 2007 LA CITTA’ DI ODRADEK, Stand Juliet, Artefiera,
Bologna/Sala espositiva Assicurazioni Generali,Trieste, IT (solo) /
2006 LA MISURA E’ COLMA, Stand Juliet, Artefiera, Bologna, Galleria Juliet,
Trieste, IT (solo) / NON SEI MORTO, AMORE, Galleria Comunale d’arte, Trieste /
2002 MA(D)RE ovvero Le madri al mare, Palazzo Costanzi, Trieste, IT (solo)
video, 5’48’’
FOT. F. Faidiga
CIRCUS MEME / a project by Fabiola Faidiga
NATURE IS TRANSFORMATION / MEMORY IS OBLIVION
Over the years, the important social and political changes brought about by the fall
of the Berlin Wall, have profoundly changed the representative significance of the
presence of Sony on the island of Brioni in Croatia. The important gi of the elephant
on the part of Indira Gandhi to the controversial but beloved head of state,
Marshal Tito, and its transfer to what used to be Tito’s private island of Brioni
but which is now a popular tourist resort, confers on Sony the important task
of being a symbol of the passage from an era of totalitarianism to a period
of a fundamental tendency towards democracy.
Sony, with the long memory typically associated with elephants and his unawareness
of human history, is a strong symbol of nature which transcends history, and this living,
imposing animal wins the challenge with the past; In comprising within himself symbolic
elements of history, memory and “active oblivion”, he opens up the idea of “nature,
continuity and transformation”.
The project is a multimedia work made up of photos, three video, a sculptural work
and a live performance.
CIRCUS MEME
/ in collaboration with Ennio Guerrato – 5’48’’ / is one of three project videos.
This video is divided into three distinct images; in the first we can make out the blurred
forms of the two elephants (Sony and his partner Lanka), in the second we see the skin
of Sony in black and white and in the third we have images of a typical day in their life.
Sony is explored and circumnavigated like a planet that has still to be discovered,
an elephant world that is present but also a utopia where the force of nature
and the future attempts to discover in a symbolic journey the means of puriing
the memory of all forms of coercion.