alice pedroletti
I’m born and grown-up in Milan where I still live and work. During the last several years my artistic research has been primarily focusing on the relationship between humanity and the surrounding environment. I approach this issue through photography, a medium that I have used to express myself for years, but also through mixed media installations. Other subjects of my art research have been Memory, both of place and collective; Space as a Place, as an extension of thoughts but also as a representation of a void, of nonexhisting meaning; and Time, which becomes the glue that keeps all these themes connected.
In my portfolio there are some works that directly relate to all the topics of my research: METRO has a strong relevance to the relationship with (the) territory, both in the initial conceptual stage and in the final installation. To create the images for this project I experienced the physical travel and discovery (of the chosen territories), a “travel” that is reprocessed through readings and stories created through sequences of images. The viewers will then be able to “travel” through the images, recreating their own story based on personal interpretation and experiences. Città Domotica (City Home Automation), is a survey project on the territory of Santa Giulia, Milan. It abandons the typical aesthetic of architectural photography to become an ethereal and emotional view of a social problem, the infringement of urban development related to policy and corruption. Stair of a threshold (portable), realized for the San Fedele Artivisive Award and inspired by the verses of Dante “E quindi uscimmo a riveder le stelle – Dove sono?”, suggests how to use our awareness in a path of human growth through six photographs. The wooden stair was built to observe the world in front of us and was moved between different places to create an unconscious link with what we desire, what we seek. Prequel of this work is Katrina backyard memories, developed in the region of Hurricane Katrina five years after the hurricane hit. This was a research project on the collective memory of the places affected by the tragedy and its overcoming through a common sense of rebirth. Other projects in my portfolio are related to this type of relationship, sometimes more personal (see for ex. I wish it was mine), sometimes more conceptual (see for ex. Metrica espositiva).
The last project presented this year is a research and archive work rapresented with a double installation. “Senza Titolo” is a work on “memory and territory” done during the AKM0 art residency on the memory of the Orta Lake (that was a dead lake ‘til the 1984) and the factory Bemberg for which my grandmother has worked more than 30 years. The factory is now shot down, failed and seized for pollution (asbestos and acids). More than 2000 workers use to work there and some of them are already dying.
I am a self-taught artist.
