Anna Franceschini
dal 20/3/2013 al 20/3/2013
Segnalato da
20/3/2013
Anna Franceschini
Emily Harvey Foundation, New York
Equinox. Almost a Tryptic. Offered to the sight in the form of a hologram, the image of a revolving half-mooned sun hesitates in the eyes. The partial moment of a whole is now being articulated by her own body in this tangible halt that we''e come to share.
curated by Chiara Vecchiarelli
Prelude
Possibly thought about as an ideal points in the sky, the moment where the ecliptic comes to coincide with the celestial equator takes the name of equinox. Shifting through time—from the 25th to the 11th of March when the calendar was not yet coinciding with the actual year, to the 20th or 21st of March of the present times—the equinox gestures at a phenomenon named equilux. A combination of the Latin term equus (equal) with lux (light) instead of nox (night), the vernal equilux individuates that one moment of the year in which the sun—from a reversed perspective reaching beyond worldliness and yet lying on this side of heliocentrism—could be said to be spending equal time on either sides of the equator. Temporarily rested on an undecidability, it generates an ephemeral balance of day and night.
Act one
As if holding the sun on the ideal point of their encounter in the sky, Anna Franceschini catches it just before it sets, thus making of its capacity of perfectly looping around the globe the alibi for a cinematic loop of her own desire. Never set, or at least leave your image forever resting in my eyes. Offered to the sight in the form of a hologram, the image of a revolving half-mooned sun hesitates in the eyes. The partial moment of a whole is now being articulated by my own body in this tangible halt that we've come to share.
Intermezzo
Act two
Sunset. I kept you so long, and you've now burned this image—the ductus of this writing being but your own presence.
Intermezzo
Act three
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Anna Franceschini is an artist living in Brussels and New York. Her work has been presented and awarded in several film festivals among which are the 60° Locarno Film Festival (CH) and TFF/Torino Film Festival (IT), MFF/Milano Film Festival. Solo exhibitions include Subjective projektionen: Anna Franceschini, Bielefelder Kunstverein (DE); Thea Ddjordjatze: quiet speech in wide circulation / Screening room: Anna Franceschini, Kiosk Gallery, Ghent (BE), HALATION, Objectif – Exhibition, Antwerp (BE); The stuffed shirt, Peep Hole, Milan (IT) and St. Paul St Gallery, AUT, Auckland (NZ). In 2011 her work was awarded with a mention of Honor at Ariane de Rothschild Prize - Milan, and she is the winner of Fondazione Casoli Prize 2012, Fabriano (IT). She has been a resident artist at the Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten, Amsterdam (NL), at VIR/Viafarini In Residence, Milan (IT), and is presently in residence at the ISCP, New York.
Artist Francesco Fonassi will inhabit the Intermezzo from a distance.
Image: Anna Franceschini, still from 'And Now You Promise You'll Never Set Again'
Thursday, March 21, 2013 - 6-8 pm
The Emily Harvey Foundation
Broadway 537 - New York NY 10012