Conversation by Fiamma Montezemolo on Echo with Carla Subrizi, Andrea Viliani and Maria Alicata

The Baruchello Foundation invites, on March 14, 2024 at 6.30 pm, to the conversation on the film Echo (2014) by Fiamma Montezemolo, between Carla Subrizi, Andrea Viliani, Maria Alicata and the artist herself. The screening of the film and the conversation to follow are part of the first event organized on the occasion of Fiamma Montezemolo's exhibition entitled "TRA", open until 19 April 2024. The film Echo is set on the border between Mexico and the United States and is an ethnographic investigation into the afterlife and "echoes" of nine works of art that were part of the inSite public art event. The work highlights the intrusion procedures in a place like the border between the two States by focusing on the now canonized theme of field work. If the intrusion is an ontological dimension of the intervention, at the same time anthropological, curatorial and artistic, revisiting these curatorial and artistic interventions after almost two decades, the "echo" emerges both as a concept and as a practice that reflects on distant resonances and the futures of works of art beyond the expected ruins and remains. Each artist, each work and the echoes of each of them - after the artists, for example, have finished them or have concentrated on another work - raise different questions - about social art, its ethics, methods, on the people involved in the projects, on the city itself and its urban cycle, on the future of public sculpture. The conclusion of the work, however, is actually an "inconclusion" and comes to reflect on two aspects: on the one hand "Narcissus" (all those who work, intervene, create) and on the other "Eco" (the context, the objects, effects, resonances, etc.). Echo is therefore a reflection on the same interconnected scenario of the work, the intervention in public space, its effects, its distant echoes.

Published: 14 mar 2024