Rome, at the Nicola Del Roscio Foundation the solo exhibition Certe cose di Silvia Giambrone

From Sept. 15 to Oct. 7, 2022, the Nicola Del Roscio Foundation in Rome presents a new exhibition entitled Certe Cose, a solo show by Silvia Giambrone, the first appointment of the exhibition cycle dedicated to the Project Room of the spaces in Via Crispi 18. With this unprecedented cycle of exhibitions designed specifically for the Project Room, the Nicola Del Roscio Foundation initiates a new course of its cultural project, with the aim of giving body to an observatory on contemporary Italian production. Artists are invited to intervene through projects of experimentation and research about the most pressing issues of contemporaneity.

Silvia Giambrone’s exhibition starts from two lines by poet Emanuel Carnevali: “Some things are like Beauty / Which has long since died: only the deep water of the well can wash them and arouse them.” Objects do not always retain their original functions: these, once their neutrality ceases, change the meaning attributed to them, they can become “Certain Things,” conveying to us quite unusual sensations and emotional resonances. Sometimes, those same objects become symbols of anxieties, others are bearers of shared values and cultural legacies, like an embroidered collar, or a pair of cutlery. “Certain Things” are silent and alone, concealing underlying mechanisms of power and subjugation, and the works in the exhibition themselves do not need a link connecting them; they live as entities in their own right. Thus, by juxtaposing the aseptic architecture of the video-performance, with the light box hanging on the wall, Silvia Giambrone does not want to create a unified discourse between the works as much as a reflection on what “Certain Things” convey to us, triggering a different echo in each of us.

In this way, Cutlery (2016) takes us back to a domestic and familiar environment, at once ambiguous and disturbing. In Single Act for Flies (2018), produced by the Pietro and Alberto Rossini Foundation in Briosco, the idea of resonance and correspondence between people and objects, space and time, returns. The film’s protagonists are two women who relate without meeting. Collar 6 (2022) shows the x-ray of an object as familiar and universally recognized as an embroidered collar, as a sign penetrated into the body, whose symbolic power brings out its cultural origin. The act of embroidery, in fact, historically conceived as a traditional female practice, becomes an object-sign, which, according to Judith Butler’s thought, is performative and is written on the body, constructing its identity.

The new course of the Project Room format also wants to give the opportunity to enter even more into the heart of the artist’s creative process: on the occasion of the opening, in fact, Silvia Giambrone will symbolically start the exhibition with a moment of public reading of a selection of writings by various authors, including Emanuel Carnevali’s “Certain Things,” which are fundamental for the understanding of her work. Poems and texts in which the artist has found a resonance with his own works, as expressions of the introjection of power relations. The public is thus invited to take part in the artist’s emotional experience.

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Rome, at the Nicola Del Roscio Foundation the solo exhibition Certe cose di Silvia Giambrone

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