Daqui de Onde Estou (From Where I Am)

Arte

Rio Terà dei Pensieri, 327/a , Venezia, VE, 30135, Italia

29/08/2022 - 14/10/2022

Daqui de Onde Estou (From Where I Am) tells the story of another exhibition - which never happened - of the process of building an identity and of (other) possible dialogues.

The first is the show Intimidades (Intimacies) conceived by the artist Analize Nicolini in 2021 during an artistic residency in Venice. As a way of introducing herself, she intended to establish a dialogue with the neighbors of her building and closest friends in the city by exhibiting some works from the beginning of her artistic career combined with more recent reflections, emerging from both her experience in the Venetian Lagoon as well as the debates from the Master's Program in Environmental Humanities which she is currently attending. The project ended up not being executed due to health issues that forced the artist’s return to Brazil.

The second is a journey of discovery - permeated by uncertainties, concerns and obstacles rooted in any self-awareness process - which culminated in the acceptance of the artist's identity.

Ultimately, if the dialogue proposed for Intimidades (Intimacies) did not become concrete on account of the circumstances imposed by life, in this show it flows in the interlocution with the artists Ana Campanella, Barbara Oettinger, Soiis Rabelo and Guita Soifer. All women, from different corners of South America, they all follow artistic paths that reveal choices, access possibilities, media and directions that sometimes drift apart, sometimes intersect.

Soiis Rabelo's "family jewel", created from primitive and founding elements - earth, water and DNA - addresses the origin of the planet, what it offers us, the pillars of our collective existence until reaching particular stories, of family and individuals. A ground that reveals itself to be malleable and fertile at the same time that it is constituted of a fragile and transitory materiality, building a strong dialogue with the questions of the finitude of life and the relationships between species, interpersonal and with the planet present in Nicolini's poetics.

The dialogical narrative continues to gain significant contours in Ana Campanella's visual essays. The artist turns egg cartons into bricks in the construction of new movements in a sustainable practice that syncs the two artists.

The inherent organicity of Guitar Soifer's practice reflects her deep interest in the creation process, resulting in artworks that, based on her individual biography, underline what is common to every living being in a diligent construction of memory. A movement similar to the one present in Barbara Oettinger’s work. Her video, staging a displacement experience, consists at the same time of a cry for help and of a memory recording strategy - the hope of having your story shared and reconstructed even if in an unknown scenario, told by an accidental recipient. In both cases, it is a search for empathy that finds echo in the acknowledgment of our need for support to achieve healing and happiness, so strong in Nicolini's work.

With this exhibition, Analize Nicolini fulfills her desire to reveal herself, sharing her starting point, the baggage accumulated along the way and the place she has reached so far, by inviting the visitor to look at the world side by side, from where she is.