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Project for the 54th edition of the Biennale of venice and later The words of Michel Verjux come to mind: “My

transferred to the museion façade in 2012. set in a village works, lighting mainly made of projections of direct light,

beyond the artic circle called Kirkenes in norway, it picked framed and focused, in my view may and have to be

up the precise time of day when an hour of twilight turns into seen not only as simple images, shapes and geometric

darkness. a kind of rebellious gesture, a little like a certain drawings of light projected into space, but also and mainly

metropolitan groups with which the artist tried to melt the as indicators and symbols of an event, a deed, a fact, an

snow and ice with a lame released from a can of hairspray. object and a process of what an exhibition of absolutely

anything, depending on the point of view, represents in

whereas for last year’s installation, Brigitte Mahlknecht the audience’s eye.”

played with the façade’s architectural grid, seen as a sort

of gigantic cage, of which the title of her work The Cage It was on the basis of such a concept that this

was inspired by rilke’s poem Der Panther about a panther French artist made his creations for the Arte Natura

acquiescently pacing behind the bars of its cage. This Poesia. Interventi a Morterone, 2012. The work Nocturne

austrian artist aimed to underline “the bond between à Morterone consisted of four light projections on the

projection and architectural structure that manages to create facades of an equal number of buildings separated around

a world, a story”. the valley so that one could see them all from the same

viewpoint, “within an immense night time sky.”

The videoinstallation, in this case, interacts with

the structure’s grid even on a igurative level. It seems to me quite unusual the approach to urban

Could you provide me other examples of relationship façades of Joana Vasconcelos, Trafaria Praia for the

with the involved architectural context? past edition of the Biennale of Venice.

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6 Brigitte Mahlknecht:
The Cage, Museion Bolzano, 2013

Photo: Othmar Seehauser,

courtesy of the Artist

7 Michel Verjux: Nocturne à Monterone,
Arte Natura Poesia.
Interventi a Morterone, 2012

Photo: Bruno Bani – courtesy Associazione
Culturale Amici di Morterone

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