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[multimedia] light-box.

dream journeys, 2007-09safe zone | in-between me | off-scene.on | spider | dream journey | prize murri

light-boxes and light-objects | used materials: light-box of painted wood, light-boxes of copper, lambda prints, welded copper, pillow, paper, base of painted iron, lights, welded copper, jute, cord, salt, light, copper bowl, feather, mirror on aluminium, blue lights, video projection Volume (3' in loop) | various dimensions

 

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text.

The light-box of the "dream journeys" by Nat Wilms: extraordinary Wunderkammer, a unique collection of objects and concepts, where the concrete of strong materials dialogues with the elusiveness of little illuminated boxes that often withdraw in a game of absolutely unprepared refers between a thing and reality, which we live physically in a determinate moment, and a thing that lives only in our imagination or better, that our imagination is able to interpret, also regarding the same object-subject. In a given time which is, at the same time, timeless. (Simona Pinelli)

 

A lot of dreams in one object only. The dream of flying and of touching the stars like in Méliès' movie "Vers les étoiles" (1906); and the dream that the own past floats away for getting lightly and leaving it behind.

 

Never stable, always with the bag in the hand, which gets always heavier. However, at the bottom there is nothing inside the suitcase, there are only memories that I carry on. So maybe I do not need more than the bag, empty, but with holes in between, which comfort me during my departures and lighten the weight of the journey for sending me into a dream, where I can fly inside of a vision on white paper, which is not written yet.

 

exhibitions.

2011. Frammenti di memoria - group exhibition at the Rocca Sforzesca di Bagnara/Italy

2009. Humano - group exhibition curated by Martina Agostini in I Portici Hotel Bologna/Italy; part of Human Rights Nights

2009. Passaggi d'arte. I laboratori di Sara Bolzani e Nicola Zamboni - group exhibition in the Museum Casa Frabboni in San Pietro in Casale/Italy

2009. Night Light - group exhibition in the gallery Bongiovanni Bologna curated by Simona Pinelli; part of Arte Fiera OFF Bologna/Italy

2008. unicef chiAma Arte - curated by S. Pinelli and E. Schiavina | Museum Ca' la Ghironda in Zola Predosa and Accademia of Fine Arts in Bologna/Italy