Inventarium
Archive
Mola di Bari, Bari (IT), 2016
with:
Camila Restrepo
Imaginary archive for:
in:
art residency program
curated by:
Fabio Caccuri
Ana Area Martinez
Table 1
Inventarium is a fictional archive project in collaboration with the Colombian artist Camila Restrepo during Con.divisione art residency program in 2016 organized by Officina dell’Arte in Mola di Bari (IT).
The project is a collection of animal, botanical and mineral elements recovered during a series of natural excursions in the area of the Apulian coast.
Natural elements, re-configured and sometimes partially altered, were stored and classified according to categories of visual imaginary and taxonomic similarity but following the visual structure of renaissance’s collections and archives.
The result is a small Wunderkammer which tells about an ironic and dystopian imaginary of a contemporary Middle ages.
