CENERE [2002/2015]

Mixed media: Single-channel digital video projection - 01:15:00 - colour - silent - 4:3| Digital audio | Other materials: ash | installation dimensions: variable

 

VIEW : https://vimeo.com/240455349

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CENERE is a performance-based video installation based on a script complied from fragments of writings by Pier Paolo Pasolini. The script is read by the artist whose video image is projected onto a large pile of ash heaped into a corner, which resembles a mountainous landscape similar to those found in Italy. This work also makes reference to a book of poems by Pasolini, The Ashes of Gramsci [1954] in which Pasolini pays homage to Antonio Gramsci—the father of Italian Communism—and locates their shared lineage in an Italian political and historical ‘landscape’.

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SHOWN

Articule (Montréal)

Moving Image Centre (Auckland)

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WRITING

Laurence Simmons, 'Passion for Pasolini',  Illusions - Journal of Moving Image & Performance Criticism, 2004

Kate Griffin, Texts & Subtexts. Moving Image Centre, Auckland, 2003
Sherry Simon, Deviant Translations. Articule, Montréal, 2002

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CENERE is part of the PASOLINI PROJECT - a project inspired by Italian filmmaker and poet Pier Paolo Pasolini. 

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INSTALLATION VIEW: Articule (Montréal)