Silvia Giambrone from Rome
With which objects and spaces of your daily life are you interacting the most?
What I have dedicated the most space to is undoubtedly taking care of myself and communicating with others. Borges said: “Fear unites us, not love, Maybe this is why I love her so much”. This situation has put each of us face to face with our own fragility and the transience of everything and these are privileged conditions for His Majesty fear to claim its crown. It is therefore an excellent opportunity to be afraid but also to get out of it together with others.
I think those with whom we are so in contact during this period, those who we have chosen as interlocutors against our will and with whom we have deepened the dialogue, they will be considered by us as our companions when in the future, looking back, perhaps we will feel like survivors.
We are dealing with a new time and space. What are you discovering or rediscovering about yourself?
That I'm getting old, which even though I haven't yet 40 For years, if I sit a lot my back hurts. Jokes aside, honestly nothing I didn't already know, what perhaps prevailed, however, was the intensity with which what Gozzano called good things in very bad taste manifested themselves. The simplest things have become charged with profound meanings, of renewed weights, and we had to renegotiate with their importance day after day, hour after hour.
How do you imagine the world, when everything will start again?
I would like to imagine what circumstances like these stimulated, if not downright forced, an honest examination of the values to cultivate and those to abandon, therefore I would like to imagine a country in which the value of art is recognized by the State in a more concrete way through initiatives such as welfare for artists or others that allow art to be what it should be, as has already been happening for a long time in Germany or other European countries instead of the war between the poor that we are sadly accustomed to in Italy.
If imagining so much means delirium then I am happy to live in a country in which the League completely loses consensus and where there is more ecological and social awareness.
Silvia Giambrone was born in Agrigento (1981); lives and works between Rome and London. Work with performances, installation, sculpture, video, sound. His research focuses on the domestication of violence and underground forms of subjugation. He is ambassador for Kaunas 2022. Vince he VAF Award 2019. Some of his most significant exhibitions include: Eurasia, Mart, Rovereto (2009); Moscow Biennale: Here he lives? (2010); Criticism in art, MAR Museum, Ravenna (2014); W Women in Italian Design, Triennale Design Museum, Milan (2016); Melee, The National Gallery, Rome (2017); Mediterranean land: in action, NiMAC, Cyprus (2017); Feminism in Italian contemporary art, Richard Saltoun Gallery, London (2019); Subversions, Museo 900, Florence (2019); I say I, The National Gallery, Rome (2020). Works with Richard Saltoun Gallery in London, Marcolini Gallery in Forlì and Studio Stefania Miscetti in Rome.
www.silviagiambrone.com