Curating

An exhibition where meditation, manual and conceptual work, maintenance, care, and craft coexist as complementary practices of building and tending to our social and physical habitats.
Turning their own labor into a subject of inquiry, as well as its means, artists janet e. dandridge, Fanni Somogyi, and Isabella Whitfield dispel the illusion that the gallery space can suspend the tension between art and equity, and they challenge us to think about what fair support for artists is.

Exhibition catalog
 

Left to right: Rice meditations 1 and 2 (2021), Isabella Whitfield; Signage - Iteration 3 (2024) and Chronicle on Choice and Consequence (2022), janet e. dandridge; Precariously Placed (2023), Fanni Somogyi.

Left to right: Precariously Placed (2023), Dust pan and Hand broom (2024), Fanni Somogyi.

All in a day’s work is a performance by Isabella Whitfield that brings into the gallery the creative labor behind her works Rice meditation 1 & 2. Meditative, meticulous, repetitive, and uninterrupted for the duration of a workday (8 hours).
The performance was part of Labor of Fire’s public program. It took place in the DC Arts Center’s main gallery and was livestreamed.

Isabella Whitfield performing All in a day’s work.

Performance’s ‘remains’.

Eyes on Tomorrow. Giovane Fotografia Italiana nel Mondo was a project by the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Municipality of Reggio Emilia to promote internationally the work of young Italian photographers. It took the form of a multi-location exhibition across 14 countries around the world. Zoma Museum was one of the chosen venues, for which I curated the onsite installation and the accompanying public program.

Eyes on Tomorrow, Zoma Edition, revolved around three central themes: identity, dreams and daily life. For each theme, the works of three photographers were selected and installed on wooden structures designed by the concept team to allow the photographers to plan their own display. The nine photographers participating in the Zoma Museum edition were Nicola Baldazzi, Dominico Camarda, Francesca Cirilli, Franceaco Levy, Alisa Martynova, Francesco Merlini, Iacopo Pasqui, Anna Positano, and Alba Zari.

Anthropogenic Bridge is a site-specific installation by the artist Eugenio Tibaldi, who participated in the Zoma’s Bridge Residency Program. The program is an invitation to foreign artists to visit Ethiopia and Zoma Museum, to design a bridge - a permanent, walkable installation, symbol of connection and junction.
Anthropogenic Bridge is inspired by the conflictual interaction, in Addis Ababa, between the botanical and the architectural. A story of impossible reconciliation and inescapable contrast.

View of Anthropogenic Bridge, by Eugenio Tibaldi, at Zoma Museum.

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