ENDANGERED SPECIES

Performance of the duration of 6 hours.

Frassinagiodiciotto, Bologna, IT

On the occasion of ArteFattaPezzi - Arte Fiera Off. Curated by Barbara Schweitzer and Roberta Venturi

January 2008

 

Endangered Species are in instability and immobility. A person is covered by pearls and glass powder on a bed made of 300 glasses. Another person shifts the empty glasses on which the body is not lying and removes pearls with the mouth from the skin surface. Each empty glass is filled with one pearl. The stiff body rises from the glasses, the back covered with marks. The remaining glasses outline the body’s shape on the floor.

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Video and stills by Claudia Riva