work
Exercises on Foucault
| category | Installation |
| subject | Political / Social, Human figure |
| tags | costrizione, Foucault, mancino, esercizio, cerimonia, controllo, corpo, scrittura, suono |
| base | 400 cm |
| height | 200 cm |
| depth | 300 cm |
| year | 2016 |
Installation: linen curtain, exercise book, paper on the wall and sound
1 copy
The starting point of the artwork is the text "Surveiller et punir. Naissance de la prison" by Michel Foucault. I read it and I tried to embody the text, starting from a biographical data: I am a correct left-handed person. So, during the period of Residence, I did a constant and regular exercise to recover the use of my left hand by transcribing parts of the text connected to body regulation and control. I produced a notebook with childish writing and I fixed my first attempt of left writing to the wall, above my working desk. Slowly, the room in which I slept and worked started to look like a convent cell, a boarding school room or a prison, environments explored by Foucault's text. On the access I put a tent, on which I embroidered the sentence "The only really important ceremony is that one of exercise", extrapolated from the text. To make the exercise parceivable, I used the sound of both right-handed and left-handed writing in a distorted crescendo that highlights the conflict and the continuous alternation of body parts in search of a relationship between them. The wooden floor absorbed and diffused the vibrations with the soles.
1 copy
The starting point of the artwork is the text "Surveiller et punir. Naissance de la prison" by Michel Foucault. I read it and I tried to embody the text, starting from a biographical data: I am a correct left-handed person. So, during the period of Residence, I did a constant and regular exercise to recover the use of my left hand by transcribing parts of the text connected to body regulation and control. I produced a notebook with childish writing and I fixed my first attempt of left writing to the wall, above my working desk. Slowly, the room in which I slept and worked started to look like a convent cell, a boarding school room or a prison, environments explored by Foucault's text. On the access I put a tent, on which I embroidered the sentence "The only really important ceremony is that one of exercise", extrapolated from the text. To make the exercise parceivable, I used the sound of both right-handed and left-handed writing in a distorted crescendo that highlights the conflict and the continuous alternation of body parts in search of a relationship between them. The wooden floor absorbed and diffused the vibrations with the soles.
