Country: Italy
Year: 1999
Duration: 6'
Video art: projection of 160 animated slides with interwoven fade outs. This work, along with those of 22 other artists, appears in an exhibition of visual art entitled Art on the Wall promoted by the Youth Vice-Council of the City of Turin in collaboration with the Piedmont Region among the activities of Torino Big 2000, curated by the Sartie Cultural Association. The works are located in various symbolic places with high cultural resonance in the city of Turin, including the Torino Film Festival.
"Ifonlyif is an invertible implication. The screening begins with a head that is being born out of nothing and ends with an umbilical cord that vanishes into nothing. However, everything is circular and infinite because every element is connected with the one that comes after it, like rings in the same chain. The pathway that winds from the umbilical cord to birth and from birth to the umbilical cord is invertible. The one abandons the other, lifetime after lifetime. The umbilical cord is the first physical laceration that we experience on our own bodies. It is a seal. On the one hand, it represents our entrance into the world as separate people, but it also represents our link to the bodies that gave birth to us. The umbilical cord is a ring joining the past and the future, where the present is us" (Luisa Rabbia).
Biography
film director
Luisa Rabbia
Luisa Rabbia (1970) lives and works in Turin and Milan. She received her diploma from the Turin Fine Arts Academy. During her three academic years, she worked as an assistant in the studio of G. Zorio. In 1996 she won a scholarship from the Palazzo Bricherasio International Contest for Young Artists' Modernity Project 2000. In 1999 she served as the Italian representative in Bangkok of the workshop entitled After Ego, a Thai-EU Contemporary Art Project. Her personal exhibitions include Proposte X: Ansie (with Daniele Galliano; Turin, 1995), Nuovi rumori di fondo (Turin, 1997), Luisa Rabbia at the Perugi Gallery (Padua, 1999), and Luisa Rabbia at the Ciocca Gallery (Milan, 1999/2000).
FILMOGRAFIA
Le vite (1998), Sesolose (1999), REM (1999).
Cast
& Credits
Regia, fotografia, montaggio: Luisa Rabbia.
Production company: Galleria Ciocca Arte Contemporanea, via Brera 30, 20121 Milano, tel. +39-02-86463167.
Production company: Galleria Ciocca Arte Contemporanea, via Brera 30, 20121 Milano, tel. +39-02-86463167.