Cleo Fariselli - Veneri

OGR Cult | Duomo

September 2 - 8, 2022
h 12 pm – 8 pm

Free Entrance

A project by Almanac
in partnership with OGR Torino and Associazione Casa Maternità Prima Luce,
supported by Fondazione CRT,
Fondazione Compagnia di San Paolo and GB Mossetto Onlus.

From September 2 to 8, the evocative setting of the Duomo at OGR Torino welcomes Veneri, an exhibition by Cleo Fariselli presented by Almanac, a non-profit organization dedicated to contemporary art and emerging artists based in Turin and London.

Pregnancy, childbirth, and motherhood are the themes at the heart of the project: a never-before-seen series of oil-on-canvas paintings produced by the artist during her recent maternity leave to explore the nine months of waiting and birth as transformative experiences, on a physical, personal, conceptual, and philosophical level.

The works in the exhibition were conceived as apotropaic figures for the purpose of channeling primal energies, instinctual feelings, and vital impulses during the crucial experience of childbirth. The figures in the paintings represent not only the testimony of a fundamental personal experience, but also a public invitation to experience pregnancy and motherhood in their deep connection with nature and archaic rituals and images, helping to bring out their uniqueness and power.

During the exhibition, Almanac will organize talks, conversations, and poetry readings to reflect on the need for a renewed relationship with nature and on the semiological and imaginative role of archaic rituals, myths, and traditions in relation to our present.

CLEO FARISELLI
Cleo Fariselli (Cesenatico, 1982) lives and works in Turin. She is among the winners of the last edition of the Italian Council award, a project of the Directorate-General for Contemporary Creativity of the Ministry of Culture with her work YOUR STORM / OUR DEW that will be presented at Almanac Inn (Turin), Almanac Projects (London), Morpho (Antwerp), Centro per l'Arte Contemporanea Luigi Pecci (Prato), Museo del Novecento (Milan), University of Stockholm, and will ultimately go to the MAMbo - Museo d'Arte Moderna in Bologna collection.
She has exhibited in major institutions such as CAC - Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, US; Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin; GNAM - Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna, Rome; Palazzo Fortuny, Venice; Palazzo Reale, Milan; Centro Pecci, Prato; and Espacio Sant Pere, Barcelona. She has been in residence at Dena Foundation (Paris, 2009) and BAR Project (Barcelona, 2013).
In her work she stimulates reflections on the body and the environment by providing a personal poetic vision connected to current issues as much as to topoi of art history.

ALMANAC
Almanac is a contemporary art space dedicated to supporting the research and careers of emerging artists. Established in London in 2013 and based in Turin since 2014, it promotes the growth and support of emerging artists on an international scale. It aims to support the production, knowledge, and dissemination of new languages in contemporary art. Since its founding, Almanac has held more than 60 solo exhibitions.

 

 

 

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