Federica RodellaFRo · Turin
Turin
Room 05 / 05 · 2017 — 2019

Matrici

Works4 collagesMediumPaper from 1960s advertising and scientific journals, glueSizes25 × 25 to 57 × 29 cmExhibitedNew York · Paris · Milan 2019 · Florence Biennale 2021StatusOriginals and prints — on request

Paper from the 1960s: advertising sells happiness, scientific journals sell progress. Cut together, they photograph a present where beauty and horror merge — postcards from a past that talks about the future. The only difference lies in words, in the names we give things.

Words — analog collage: a woman with her hands to her face, a butterfly in her open mouth, among insects and plants
01Words
Analog collage, vintage paper, 2017
Every word is an injury
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Bathers — analog collage: women in 1950s swimsuits on a jetty, red prehistoric reptiles on the shore behind
02Bathers
Analog collage, vintage paper, 2018
34 × 30 cm
Pets — analog collage: a giant prehistoric fish facing a small girl in a white dress
03Pets
Analog collage, vintage paper, 2018
A monster with a name becomes a pet
57 × 29 cm
The Poet — analog collage: a tall obelisk rising to a moon, bathers with a ball and leaves around it
04The Poet
Analog collage, vintage paper, 2018
Can art rise above words?
45 × 23.5 cm
Notes

Why matrices

In printmaking the matrix is the plate everything is pulled from. These collages play that role for the whole practice.

The paper

Advertising and science, side by side: two promises that contradict each other. In the contradiction the present becomes visible.

Language

Every word is an injury (Nietzsche); a monster with a name becomes a pet (Derrida). The collages hold both at once.

Exhibited
YearTitleVenueNote
2021XIII Florence Biennale — Eternal Feminine | Eternal ChangeFortezza da Basso, FlorenceGroup exhibition
2019Van Der Plas GalleryNew YorkGroup exhibition
2019Galerie ThuillierParisGroup exhibition
2019CMC — Centro Culturale di MilanoMilanGroup exhibition
2018 —Group exhibitionsRomeAnalog collage
Contact · Matrici
For galleries & curators

The analog collages of this room are available for exhibition and acquisition. Portfolio, dimensions and prices on request.

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