ballardian four, 2015–17
Plasterboard, glass, metal (house)
Shower curtain, metal rod, camp bed, soft PVC foil, Plexiglas, velcro (inside the house)
Shower curtain, metal rod, camp bed, soft PVC foil, Plexiglas, velcro (inside the house)
Made of two near identical structures, posed at an angle and apparently held by a central hinge, Ballardian House addresses a notion of doubling, coupling, and splitting.
meeting stones, 2017 (right)
Freckle stones
Two rows of small boulders that have been cut in halves recall an archaic meeting place but also incorporate an instance of mirroring. The symmetrical alignment evokes the ancient tradition of associating meaning with found constellations of stones and of marking significant locations by creating pattern from them.
replaced by words (horizon), 2017 (on the wall)
Soft PVC foil, Plexiglas, wood
The work evokes a concrete phenomenon (the horizon line), the notion of landscape, and a fictional location. The words (taken from J. G. Ballard's texts) are in place of the missing phenomenon: "...I tried to leave by this last door of the horizon the same queasy perspectives would unravel in front of me...."
Photo © Andrea Rossetti