CORPUS:
guha
../Related Objects
KEYWORD:
#geo-monument
CULTURAL DEFINITION:
../Edition: 1 / 1
../Site/times: Seyðisfjörður, East Iceland
TECHNICAL DATA:
../Object:
complex
../Matter and technique: Enviromental geo-monument, drawings, photographs and artefacts.
DESCRIPTION: Guha is the inner cavern on the outermost edge of the world, an environmental
monument hidden within the bowels of the earth, built during the artist's stay in
East Iceland.
Guha is also the artist's studio, understood not only as a physical place of
production but as a condition for an inner journey that includes meditation, deepening
and rediscovery of individual and collective memory, in search of a void
that leaves a passage to the decolonized imagination.
Within the diaristic fetish of this 'journey' composed of drawings, artifacts,
photographs of collected objects and an optical device of ancient technology, the
artist has concealed a code capable of leading who deciphers it to the exact location
of the cavern, so that a unique and special bond is established between the
work and its user.
Every one of these elements of unstable boundaries is part of that process of
‘hyper-extension’ which, as it unfolds, composes the work as unfinished, a
constellation of personal elements, linked by the only path possible.
Project realized with the support of “nctm e l’arte: Artists-in-residence”.
THEMES:
../#specificity:
geographical thick_place
../#body:
experience para_performance
../#breath:
hyperextension
../#imagination:
political_act biophilia
../#identity:
memory technology
SOURCES AND DOCUMENTS:
../Images: https://photos.app.goo.gl/qkYv6CzKYHbxFHj97
../Information card [pdf]: guha.pdf
../Bibliography:
monograph_nctm e l’arte. 2016
../Exhibition:
Skaftfell project space, Seyðisfjörður, East Iceland.2015
NCTM – Milano.2016
../Collection: public
