SOFFIO
Installation - sound, drawings, objects
2023
Sound: 2 channels, stereo, 6'' loop
Drawings: ink on paper, 50cm x 65cm each
Wood branches found in Berlin: ink, 80cm x 3cm each
Exhibited at:
- Museo del Novecento e del Contemporaneo, Palazzo Fabroni Pistoia (IT)
20 May - 15 August 2023
Group exhibition "Mezz'aria. La strana apertura della ricerca sonora" with works by Marco Baldini, Elena Biserna, Luca Boffi, Andrea Borghi, Francesco Cavaliere, Stefano De Ponti, Nicola Di Croce, Giulia Deval, Alessandra Eramo, Renato Grieco, Riccardo La Foresta, Enrico Malatesta, Chiara Pavolucci, Leandro Pisano, Diana Lola Posani, Francesco Toninelli
2023
Sound: 2 channels, stereo, 6'' loop
Drawings: ink on paper, 50cm x 65cm each
Wood branches found in Berlin: ink, 80cm x 3cm each
Exhibited at:
- Museo del Novecento e del Contemporaneo, Palazzo Fabroni Pistoia (IT)
20 May - 15 August 2023
Group exhibition "Mezz'aria. La strana apertura della ricerca sonora" with works by Marco Baldini, Elena Biserna, Luca Boffi, Andrea Borghi, Francesco Cavaliere, Stefano De Ponti, Nicola Di Croce, Giulia Deval, Alessandra Eramo, Renato Grieco, Riccardo La Foresta, Enrico Malatesta, Chiara Pavolucci, Leandro Pisano, Diana Lola Posani, Francesco Toninelli
Excerpt from "Soffio"
The voice is "flow and sigh, it is an active part of the body, it is body itself". The voice is at the center of Alessandra Eramo's research. Whispers emanate from the wall and spread through the rooms, showing the soul of an invisible but audible body, while creating a dynamic movement between the inside and the outside.
"Soffio (Blow), a passage of air, a passage of an inner substance. Voice. Intangible substance that becomes matter."
Out of the living voice, the sound installation employs feedback and reverberation to deconstruct the words. In facing the installation, it is not as important how much the spoken words mean as how they sound. In Eramo's work, the vocal body then becomes sign and memory. "I consider my drawings as graphic scores of audio traces, they record the gesture of my body while I'm singing and drawing."
Gabriele Tosi, curator
Curated by NUB Project Space and Gabriele Tosi
Out of the living voice, the sound installation employs feedback and reverberation to deconstruct the words. In facing the installation, it is not as important how much the spoken words mean as how they sound. In Eramo's work, the vocal body then becomes sign and memory. "I consider my drawings as graphic scores of audio traces, they record the gesture of my body while I'm singing and drawing."
Gabriele Tosi, curator
Curated by NUB Project Space and Gabriele Tosi