In Bologna, the very young Plastikhaare close the Navile Temporary Museum experience

In Bologna , the experience of the Navile Temporary Museum comes to a close, and the last exhibition project before it closes is entrusted to two very young artists, Giulia Querin and Rachele Tinkham, both born in Venice in 1997 and currently students at theAcademy of Fine Arts in Bologna. In 2021, after multiple educational experiences, including a six-month stint at the Kunstakademie in Münster, they founded an artistic duo called Plastikhaare: plastic hair. Their exhibition is titled Ad una vera pia donna dei simili fili misi e annodai and is on view until Jan. 3, 2023.

The ironic and playful exploration of a fluid universe in perpetual oscillation, where the concept of identity shatters and multiplies exponentially, is the territory the artists have decided to investigate through an articulate and already formally convincing practice. In their works they mix, as in a great Dionysian gathering, sculpture, performance, music and vaguely delirious images, in order to recreate a powerful dimension of metamorphic fluidity, a kind of meta-world hidden within the known one. They establish with ironic subtle cruelty, so dear to the Surrealist movement from which the two are undoubtedly inspired, a relationship of tension with the rigid cognitive and interpretive structures that connote the official world. Indeed, Plastikhaare could be defined as a kind of testimony to an irregular, hidden, deliberately underground world where, rather surprisingly, the transvaluation of all officially accepted values takes place.

On display is a large installation consisting of hundreds of sculptural, crocheted dresses that will cover the entire floor area of the main room, a kind of huge ritual dress to accompany the museum in this umpteenth transformation. “We will bring the viewer to witness and participate in the creation/birth of a limit understood as a tension that gives life to a space and does not define its end, but rather its beginning, in this sense we can define the work as a ritual of closure. Space comes to life in our minds once we internalize it, becoming aware of the conversation between our presence and that of places; which despite their rigid and stable architecture, are actually composed of shifting internal densities that make the lived surface dynamic and liquid.”

In the project room, the video WHAT YOU LIKE TO SEE by Fabio Ricciardiello.

The site- and time-specific project, curated by Azzurra Immediato in collaboration with mtn, sets up a path: looking, observing, glimpsing, imagining, wishing, dreaming, “Making the impossible possible, the invisible visible.” Sculpture, photography and video abandon tangible reality and turn into imaginative and estranging non-places where what appears unrealizable has -already- happened, but what has not yet been realized can only -still- happen thanks to the audience’s desire to dare. WYLTS is a dream, a chimera and an artist’s book, born with Chippendale Studio, translated into collective digital work sine die. The book chronicling the project will be presented on Friday, Dec. 16, in the presence of the artist.

For all information, you can visit the official website of the temporary museum navile.

In Bologna, the very young Plastikhaare close the Navile Temporary Museum experience

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