Work Plan for Tuf-O Resident 2024 - THE CHILD'S DREAM / FAVIGNANA
My projects are always connected to childhood, they have to do with children—the children who live with us and those who dwell within us.
How much of the child we once were do we still carry with us?
"Ever since I was a child, I would sleep on the white tuff. I would let myself get scratched while I hid in the quarries, and it was like diving into the sea, a white sea. Where the sun would burn my dreams..."
"The child's dream" is inspired by this text by Stefano Rallo and by my encounter with Favignana, its geographical and human landscape.
Then came the encounter with an abandoned little boat covered in shrubs, and the realization of how many children, alone or with their parents, carry their dreams across the sea to reach the shores of Sicily, and the sea cradles this dream, like a lullaby that all too often turns into silence in its depths.
Gabriela Lopez
Gabriela López, a prominent plastic artist from Gral Pico, La Pampa, graduated with a degree in Fine Arts in 1998, earning the title of Full Professor of Drawing and Sculpture. In 2014, she began focusing on her personal work, participating in several group exhibitions. She won the “Grand Prize of Honor” at the Salón Patagonico de Artes Plásticas in the sculpture section and received an honorable mention at the La Pampa National Sculpture Exhibition. In 2015, she held her first solo exhibitions in La Pampa and Buenos Aires and debuted at the National Hall of Plastic Arts at the Palais de Glace. Her works are in collections in Switzerland, Italy, Canada, Brazil, Colombia, Peru, Chile, Uruguay, and Argentina. Gabriela López continues to live and work in her hometown.
Alejandro Thornton
Work Plan for Art Resident 2024 - FIRST BREATH / ESCENA OCEANICA
My project for Escena Oceanica was based on developing a series of pieces, mainly in paper and video, exploring the relationship between word and image, particularly considering physical/geographic space as a container of language and communication. The question of whether communication, speaking, is possible with the sea? was one of the starting ideas. Thinking about this is to talk about language, its visuality, and exploring its physical, geographic, and social dimensions in thought and communication. Regardless of the language, language shapes how we see and define the world; and this is the backbone of my artistic practice.
Argentine visual artist. Her works explore the digitalization of environments and codification of the landscape.
She experiments with different (im)materialities on the interweaving of ecologies digital in the Capitalocene.
She creates analog and hybrid structures digital that propose fictitious speculations on the limits of science, fixed binary metaphors and the romanticization of nature.
Work Plan for Art Resident 2024 - FIRST BREATH / ESCENA OCEANICA
During my residency at Escena Oceánica, I used photogrammetry, color registration, and landscape video to create an augmented reality artwork reflecting the unique elements of the Polonio Ocean. Open to the environment, I merged with the sea's rhythm through daily meditation. My project explores layers of perception and reality, depicting the ocean's unfathomable mystery and its timeless rhythm. Augmented reality technology adds a "magical" quality to my digital sculpture, which represents the eternal movement of the sea and the parallels found in all landscapes. These landscapes, devoid of humans but marked by civilization, evoke echoes of a possible future.
