Two series of works produced for an exhibition at the Filodrammatica Gallery in Rijeka, Croatia, both based on the historical and physical context of the Filodrammatica building.
The building, constructed in 1890, has left numerous traces in the memories of people, records, and documentation, while many artists and audiences have left their own traces in the physical space over the centuries. Ilario Carposio’s photographs found in the State Archives in Rijeka, depicting the original facade and interior of Filodrammatica, served as the basis for the graphic part of the exhibition. The material used in the graphics was collected within the building – dust representing a material testimony of air flow is imprinted on Carposio’s photographs, transforming them into impressions of a very bright spectrum.
The first series of works exhibited as a series of graphics, clearly indicate the inevitable decay of original ideas and material achievements over time. In contrast to the process of disappearance expressed in monochromatic graphics, an installation based on light is opposed, pointing to the existence of life that resists what time carries with it—entropy. Color photographs of the building’s interior, displayed on lightboxes placed on piles of furniture belonging to the building, simultaneously represent a contrast and a companion to the deteriorating structure.
The second series of works encapsulate the intellectual and emotional experience of Filodrammatica’s users and visitors about Filodrammatica, through the dialogue between the graphic and installation arrangement, static and dynamic principles, and above all the illusion of order that conceals decay in the graphics and the chaos that actually contains order and resists decay in the installation.
The works were produced for the solo exhibition Untitled (Archive Filodrammatica) at the Filodrammatica Gallery (organized by Drugo more Association), Rijeka, Croatia in 2023.
The building, constructed in 1890, has left numerous traces in the memories of people, records, and documentation, while many artists and audiences have left their own traces in the physical space over the centuries. Ilario Carposio’s photographs found in the State Archives in Rijeka, depicting the original facade and interior of Filodrammatica, served as the basis for the graphic part of the exhibition. The material used in the graphics was collected within the building – dust representing a material testimony of air flow is imprinted on Carposio’s photographs, transforming them into impressions of a very bright spectrum.
The first series of works exhibited as a series of graphics, clearly indicate the inevitable decay of original ideas and material achievements over time. In contrast to the process of disappearance expressed in monochromatic graphics, an installation based on light is opposed, pointing to the existence of life that resists what time carries with it—entropy. Color photographs of the building’s interior, displayed on lightboxes placed on piles of furniture belonging to the building, simultaneously represent a contrast and a companion to the deteriorating structure.
The second series of works encapsulate the intellectual and emotional experience of Filodrammatica’s users and visitors about Filodrammatica, through the dialogue between the graphic and installation arrangement, static and dynamic principles, and above all the illusion of order that conceals decay in the graphics and the chaos that actually contains order and resists decay in the installation.
The works were produced for the solo exhibition Untitled (Archive Filodrammatica) at the Filodrammatica Gallery (organized by Drugo more Association), Rijeka, Croatia in 2023.