CANTIERI D'ARTE
(t)here is an invitation to linger at the margins of verbal language, in the spaces between sound, gesture and meaning.
Elsa Mencagli Andersen opens the doors of her solo exhibition at the Biancovolta, seeking to probe the territory in which one transitions from rational, verbal experience to the exploration of space with the body, in a slow, dilated time in which the public and artist can experience together modes of embodied knowledge.
For about an hour, a group of people is invited into the exhibition space where they encounter sculptural installations, a video, sounds and drawings. Here the artist invites the visitors to participatory micro-actions; moving from word to gesture, shaping sounds, and experimenting with practices of intimacy related to touch and sound that open up other ways of connecting between people and between people and artworks.
The artworks and micro-actions are part of an artistic research that explores different forms of language (verbal and non-verbal) through word, movement, sound and matter. By inhabiting the space that exists within language production, the works attempt to convey the registers of language that are manifested through rhythm, form, vibration and gesture.
The artistic research interweaves art with neurology, speech therapy, voice training, somatic movement and lived experience. It is developed in conversation with doctors and therapists, as well as with the writings of philosopher Erin Manning, neurologist Jill Bolte Taylor and others.
(t)here is a solo exhibition by Elsa Mencagli Andersen curated by Cantieri d'Arte, produced with the support of the Danish Arts Foundation.
Photography: Ozge Sahin