Living Layers is a conceptual project and residency proposed by Wunderkammern in collaboration with MACRO. The first cycle involves the participation of two artist; Valentina Vetturi and Alex Auriema, B.Arch 2009 with the collaboration of Cesare Pietroiusti.
For two weeks Valentina and Alex lived and worked in the neighborhood of Torpigetara (Rome) with the intent of working directly with and gaining insight to a zone located in the periphery of Rome. Concluding the two weeks the artist will present their projects at Wunderkammern Gallery, and in November discuss and display their work collectively at MACRO, Museum of Contemporary Art Rome.
To conclude the residency on June 9th a workshop will led by Cesare Pietroiusti, and the two artists, at Wunderkammern.
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My work is a metaphor for tension in the periphery of Torpignettara. If you stop to contemplate the cliché a layered city you will realize how complicated the term ‘city’ actually is. To better understand a city is to distil that complexity. I have approached this neighborhood with a series of questions and, through a process of cumulative exchange, attempted to reproduce or make legible these singular events.
Where are the heroes, the colonisers, the victims of the Metropolis?
Brecht, Diary entry, 1921
- Alex Auriema
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For more information about this event, please see: www.wunderkammern.net
