\ 2004
installations

Nidi

2004, installation view
MACRO, Rome
woven rattan, inked paper, variable size
Ph. Ela Bialkowska

The installation suggests a journey through abandoned houses that still offer themselves as possible dwellings, as containers that might yet be used for shelter. The works can be shown clinging to vertical surfaces or lying on the ground, like provisional architectures waiting to be inhabited.
Each sculpture is made from bamboo and flexible materials such as striped fabrics or ink-washed paper, which the artist interweaves and moulds on her own body, much like birds building their nests and using themselves as measuring tools. The weave often grows out of chance overlaps, informed by a close observation of natural “engineering”. In this way, the work seeks to revive a shared experience of construction and care, suggesting that similar processes in nature and in art can lead to surprisingly similar forms