The exhibition presents Gianna Parisse’s work Mundus Patet, shown for the first time in Italy, an installation composed of different photographic, audio and video elements, which invites us to enter a poetic path of research on the meaning of a place: a house and all that concerns it before and after the Amatrice earthquake of 2016.
The installation inhabits the three rooms of the Luigi Di Sarro Center, with a composition of 171 images of stones collected from the location by the artist; a table, where two display cases containing 342 photographs of glass objects and branches collected from the apple orchard of the house are arranged; a video projection (4′ 43″), whose soundtrack spreads throughout the three exhibition spaces.
The work is composed of fragments aimed at suggesting the dichotomy between the subtle dialogue of man-made elements with elements of nature, and the silent rumbling of the delicate balance between man and nature.
Gianna Parisse’s meticulous work of researching and stitching together the numerous fragments using a portable scanner, a camera and audio recordings, results in an installation that, in its simplicity and essentialism, is immersive and engaging.
The title of the work, Mundus Patet, refers to an ancient Roman festival, which took place every year on the 24th of August at the Palatine Hill and celebrated the world of the dead, but more importantly that which is hidden underground, the soil, the earth. August 24 is also the date of the Amatrice earthquake. The land which embraced the house for many years, the land inhabited by the house, shifts, changes its course, and from a place that welcomes it becomes a place that encompasses it, that reappropriates what has emerged.
The artist’s work restores the intimacy of what has been submerged and investigates the intricacies and veins uncovered by the action of nature on man, and man on nature.
Gianna Parisse artist, architect, PhD, has dedicated herself to the research of the relationship between art and architecture for many years. More recently, she graduated in painting and specialized in graphic arts, particularly in the technology of paper materials, at the Academy of Fine Arts in Rome. She has exhibited in Italy and abroad: Dresden, Germany; Seoul, Korea; and New York, USA.
