Rooftop Talk @opr gallery | with Tommaso Cotroneo | Dec 2021
Excess Island | Solo Show at OPR Gallery | Sept 2021 | Milano
EXCESS ISLAND
Benedetta Panisson
Curated by Francisco-J. Hernández Adrián
Opening: 15 Settembre, 2021 – dalle ore 12.00 alle ore 21.00
On Show: 16 Settembre – 14 Novembre, 2021
OPR Gallery presenta Excess Island, mostra personale di Benedetta Panisson curata da Francisco-J. Hernández Adrián (Durham University, UK) in collaborazione con Giangiacomo Cirla (OPR Gallery e PHROOM, Milano). Excess Island è il risultato di una ricerca decennale sulla poiesis sensoriale e fotografica che documenta atti di riconoscimento reciproco tra due protagonisti contemporanei: l'umano volubile, sessuale, che brandisce la macchina fotografica, e la biosfera sublime, rifrangente e potenzialmente ostile. In questa relazione immaginaria e fotografata, chi fa cosa e chi costituisce chi?
Excess Island sospende l'impulso a mercificare gli oggetti ambientali e indaga il sentire e il coesistere ai margini del consumismo accelerato. Le fotografie di Panisson non si muovono nell'esotismo, ma abbracciano un senso riparatore di sé e del luogo. Mentre gli ambienti insulari sono sempre più limitati da occlusioni materiali e audiovisive, queste fotografie evocano una resistenza creativa e un'azione responsabile a favore di forme multiple di vita, personae e piaceri sensuali che possono aprire nuovi passaggi affettivi e concettuali. I paesaggi insulari sensoriali di Panisson richiedono la nostra partecipazione a un futuro improduttivo, queer e riparativo della relazione intima. La macchina fotografica è già lì, e il lavoro di Panisson lo rende evidente con urgenza politica, fluidità estetica e un ottimismo contagioso e riparatore.
Excess Island prende forma alla OPR Gallery, punto di partenza del dottorato di Panisson alla Durham University, un progetto di ricerca che scava, connette e affronta genealogie multiple di materialità queer, rappresentazione visiva e resistenza creativa attraverso la planetaria isola dell'eccesso.
OPR Gallery
Viale Corsica, 99
20133 – Milano
https://officeprojectroom.com/
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OPR Gallery presents Excess Island, a solo show by Benedetta Panisson curated by Francisco-J. Hernández Adrián (Durham University, UK) in collaboration with Giangiacomo Cirla (OPR Gallery and PHROOM, Milan). Excess Island culminates a decade-long investigation into sensory poiesis and photographic emotiveness that documents acts of co-constitutive recognition between two modern protagonists: the voluble, sexual, camera-wielding human, and the sublime, refractive, and potentially hostile biosphere. In this imaginary and photographed relation, who makes what and who constitutes whom?
Excess Island suspends the impetus to commodify environmental objects and investigates sensing and coexisting on the margins of accelerated consumerism. Panisson’s photographs do not transact in exoticism, but embrace a reparative sense of self and place. As island environments grow increasingly constrained by material and audiovisual occlusions, these photographs evoke creative resistance and responsible action for the sake of multiple forms of life, personae, and sensuous pleasures that can open up fresh affective and conceptual passages. Panisson’s sensory islandscapes demand our participation in an unproductive, queer, and reparative future of intimate relation. The camera is already there, and Panisson’s work makes this apparent with political urgency, aesthetic fluency, and a contagious and reparative optimism.
Informing Excess Island at OPR Gallery, Panisson’s PhD project at Durham University excavates, connects, and confronts multiple genealogies of queer materiality, visual representation, and creative resistance across the planetary excess island.
OPR Gallery
Viale Corsica, 99
20133 – Milano
People Do Water @Unframe London
https://unframe.london/escapist-photography/
@analoglandscape
https://analoglandscape.altervista.org/benedetta-panisson-brivido-bagnato/
Vice Italy | 2020
Vice Italy | 2020 | https://www.vice.com/it/article/wxq395/venezia-crisi-climatica-turismo
Getxo Photo - Festival internacional de Imagen - Basque Country
ZAPPING THE ARCHIVE - video screening at @getxophoto (03-27 September 2020).
Curated by PHROOM, Giangiacomo Cirla and Elena Rebecca Rivolta
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In a world spoiled by the grammar of digital communication and the neoliberal production relationships that want everything capable of being shared and consumed faster and faster, the suspicion is growing that photographic language is increasingly losing the ability to report linguistic and postural autonomies, nourishing the impression of an imminent disappearance of the figure of the other and his images and expressions.
This makes a reflection on the work of census, selection, storage and use made by the new emerging research platforms an interesting subject to evaluate and possibly recognize the instances of this suspicion.
By attributing an interest in processing an observation thus proposed, PHROOM exhibits a selection of images from its archives, a choice of authors to each of whom, alongside others, is given the opportunity to report both linguistic autonomy and at the same time the ability to constitute, with his signs, an active part of a choral voice capable of outlining a thematic, disciplinary and aesthetic territory, to which refer as to intercept the most urgent instances of contemporary linguistic expression in the visual field.
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@finger223 - @brandyeveallen - @lizaambrossio - Fabrizio Bellomo - @matteocremonesi_edition - @marcodapino - @giuseppe_de_mattia - @bibifenara - @maria_de_la_o_garrido - @artist_jaakkokahilaniemi - @k.seunggu - @yulia_krivich - @elizabethgabriellelee - @alexandralethbridge - Camille Lévêque - @annstudios - @sergey_melnitchenko - @g.oberti - @evaostrowska - @benedettapanisson - @gloriapasotti - @sarahriisager - @piero_roi - @bonsaimon - @albsinigaglia - @enricoaz - @marinos_tsagkarakis - @vanoverberghesybren - @matriioszka - @albazari - Fani Zguro.
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Getxophoto Info Point, Amezti 4 (Algorta)
Tuesday to Friday 17:30-20:30, Saturdays 11:00-14:30 / 17:30-20:30, Sundays 11:00-14:30
https://www.getxophoto.com/en/discover-getxophoto/what-is-it/
PhD Research | Sexual Exorbitance in Island Environments. Visual Displays of Intimacy in Human and Interspecies Sexualities
Happy and honored to announce my new project, a PhD Research at Durham University, UK.
"Sexual Exorbitance in Island Environments. Visual Displays of Intimacy in Human and Interspecies Sexualities". An academic research that is an art practice, and vice versa.
A dream coming true thanks to my wonderful supervisors, Prof. Francisco-J. Hernández Adrián and Prof. Marc Schachter, to Durham University, and to our outstanding official media partner, PHROOM.
Islands and seas, human and animal sexual exorbitant displays, gender and queer studies, decolonial studies, ocean environment studies, and art will make my next three years a liquid surprise.
Come to Venice at Screening Room | Office Project Room | June 1st - 15th
Screening Room #4
"Come to Venice" // Benedetta Panisson
June 1st - 15th
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“Come to Venice” (2013) is a 20 minutes documentary about Venice. Some interviews made to people who live in the island tell about Venice joy and sadness. The sound of the alarm siren is the recording of the original high tide siren that was used till some years ago to alert islanders. The same sound here becomes a general state of alarm.
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https://officeprojectroom.com/screening-room/
#officeprojectroom #screeningroom
Odesa Photo Days Festival
Happy to announce that a selection from Excess Island series will be presented at Odesa Photo Days Festival at Zapping the Archive, exhibition curated by Phroom, Gianciacomo Cirla and Elena Rebecca Rivolta
Partner location — Bleschunov Home Municipal Museum of Personal Collections.
In a world spoiled by the grammar of digital communication and the neoliberal production relationships that want everything capable of being shared and consumed faster and faster, the suspicion is growing that photographic language is increasingly losing the ability to report linguistic and postural autonomies, nourishing the impression of an imminent disappearance of the figure of the other and his images and expressions.
This makes a reflection on the work of census, selection, storage and use made by the new emerging research platforms an interesting subject to evaluate and possibly recognize the instances of this suspicion.
By attributing an interest in processing an observation thus proposed, PHROOM exhibits a selection of images from its archives, a choice of authors to each of whom, alongside others, is given the opportunity to report both linguistic autonomy and at the same time the ability to constitute, with his signs, an active part of a choral voice capable of outlining a thematic, disciplinary and aesthetic territory, to which refer as to intercept the most urgent instances of contemporary linguistic expression in the visual field.
ARTISTS
Photography: NO.223 (Lin Zhipeng), Brandy Eve Allen, Liza Ambrossio, Fabrizio Bellomo, Matteo Cremonesi, Marco Dapino, Giuseppe De Mattia, Irene Fenara, Christian Michael Filardo, Maria de la O Garrido, Jaakko Kahilaniemi, Seunggu Kim, Iva Kontic, Yulia Krivich, Elizabeth Gabrielle Lee, Alexandra Lethbridge, Camille Lévêque, Ann Massal, Sergey Melnitchenko, Bruno Muzzolini, Giovanni Oberti, Eva Ostrowska, Benedetta Panisson, Gloria Pasotti, Sarah Michelle Riisager, Piero Roi, Simone Sapienza, Agnieszka Sejud, Alberto Singaglia, Enrico Smerilli, Marinos Tsagkarakis, Sybren Vanoverberghe, Karolina Wojtas, Alba Zari, Fani Zguro.
Video: Sofia Bersanelli, Gianluca Codeghini, Matteo Cremonesi, Carlo Ferraris, Mauro Folci, Agnese Galiotto, Manuela Garcia, Demetrio Giacomelli, Iva Kontic, Bingxuan Li, Orestis Mavroudis, Ivana Mirchevska, Bruno Muzzolini, Camilla Rocchi, Fani Zguro.
CURATORS
Giangiacomo Cirla (Milan) is an artistic director, editor, and researcher. He works in the field of visual culture and visual communication. His research focuses on the study of fruition, perception, and production of artistic projects. He also analyzes the variations and the new possibilities allowed by technological advancement in the field of art and visual communication. He is the Director of PHROOM which includes the role of Editor in Chief of PHROOM magazine and Creative Director of PHROOM agency. He works as Gallery Manager at Office Project Room (Milano) and he is also involved as artistic director and creative consultant in several projects.
Elena Rebecca Rivolta (Milan) graduated in New Technologies of Art, is currently finishing her master’s degree in Visual Cultures and Curatorial Practices at the Brera Academy of Fine Arts. She is part of the editorial board of PHROOM. Her work experience as artist and gallery assistant, together with the organization of exhibitions and conferences with related publications, guided her training towards curatorship and project management in the artistic field.
PHROOM is an international research platform for contemporary photography and video art. Thanks to a continuous investigation they select and present projects from all over the world, outlining through their archive, exhibitions, curatorial and editorial projects, the profile of a panorama that sees photographic research and video art as protagonists of a continuous linguistic and cultural evolution.
Cover photo: Eva Ostrovska – Love was Sweet and Warm as a Tangerine Sunrise.
Horizonte, mar, exceso, exorbitancia | TEA
![21 sep 2019Taller 'Horizonte, mar, exceso, exorbitancia'TEA Tenerife Espacio de las Artes celebra este sábado [día 21], en el marco de las residencias de artistas de TEA Área 60: Producción 0 y derivado del ciclo de proyecciones Gonzalo González: de…](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65017be8e842e917bf38cd89/1694596097045-SXFSIO66GZ9VNRR3RB34/IMG_20190917_103821_879.jpg)
21 sep 2019
Taller 'Horizonte, mar, exceso, exorbitancia'
TEA Tenerife Espacio de las Artes celebra este sábado [día 21], en el marco de las residencias de artistas de TEA Área 60: Producción 0 y derivado del ciclo de proyecciones Gonzalo González: desplazamientos, aperturas, miradas desde el cine, el taller Horizonte, mar, exceso, exorbitancia. Este taller, coordinado por Francisco-J. Hernández Adrián, es un seminario-taller de cuatro horas donde se explorará inicialmente una constelación de conceptos que se apoyan en las prácticas artísticas, curatoriales y críticas de Gonzalo González, Benedetta Panisson, Ramiro Carrillo y Francisco-J. Hernández Adrián, quienes expondrán sus planteamientos en torno a estos conceptos para incitar a continuación a un debate más amplio, centrado en los proyectos de los participantes de las residencias.
El taller incluye la proyección de Come to Venice (2013) de Panisson, corto que servirá como punto de partida para abrir y extender el debate, subrayando la idea de que la obra de González dialoga con diferentes formas de expresión artística y audiovisual.
Gonzalo González (Tenerife, 1950) es uno de los artistas más reconocidamente importantes, expansivos y versátiles de las Islas Canarias. Su obra se ha expuesto numerosas veces en Canarias y en la Península, además de en diferentes ciudades de Europa, Estados Unidos y Latinoamérica. Comisariada en TEA por Ramiro Carrillo, Estar aquí es todo recoge la obra reciente de González en diferentes medios: pintura, dibujo, escultura, fotografía y vídeo.
Benedetta Panisson (Venecia, 1981) es una artista y activista conceptual excepcionalmente dinámica cuyo trabajo en diferentes medios interpela a diferentes públicos, contextos de recepción y debate: el cine, la fotografía, la vídeo instalación, el dibujo y la performance. Entre sus proyectos recientes centrados en el vídeo y la fotografía se cuentan Come to Venice (2008-2015), Excess Island (2011-2019) y People do Water (2013-2019).
Ramiro Carrillo es profesor y Director del Departamento de Bellas Artes de la Universidad de La Laguna. Es autor de numerosos textos críticos sobre artistas canarios contemporáneos y ha comisariado dos importantes exposiciones de Gonzalo González.
Francisco-J. Hernández Adrián es profesor titular de Estudios Hispánicos y Estudios de Cultura Visual en la Universidad de Durham (Reino Unido), y editor asociado de la revista Cultural Dynamics.
PHROOM | HYDROPHILIA
Happy to announce my collaboration with Phroom. Hydrophilia.
TEA, Museum of Contemporary Art of Tenerife. Round Table: 'Gonzalo González: desplazamientos, aperturas, miradas desde el cine'. July 2019
TEA Tenerife Espacio de las Artes celebra este jueves [día 25], a las 21:00 horas, una mesa redonda titulada Gonzalo González: desplazamientos, aperturas, miradas desde el cine. En ella participarán el artista Gonzalo González; el profesor titular de Estudios Hispánicos y Estudios Visuales de la Universidad de Durham, Francisco-J. Hernández Adrián; la artista italiana Benedetta Panisson; la profesora de la Facultad de Bellas Artes de la Universidad de La Laguna (ULL), Tania Castellano; y la comisaria independiente, Dalia de la Rosa.
https://teatenerife.es/actividad/mesa-redonda-gonzalo-gonzalez-desplazamientos-aperturas-miradas-desde-el-cine/1962
Come to Venice at TEA | Museum of Contemporary Art of Tenerife
Happy to announce that Come to Venice will be exhibited at TEA, Museum of Contemporary Art of Tenerife. A film selection curated by Prof. Francisco-J. Hernández Adrián, "Gonzalo González: desplazamientos, aperturas, miradas desde el cine"
Small among masters (Dreyer, Tarkovski, Kitano, Peixoto) and among amazing contemporary artists (Guerrero, Huertas Millán, Avila Forero) to tell about islands, margins, seas, fight and love. Part of the exhibition "Estar aquí es todo", curated by Ramiro Carrillo. Soon news from the ocean!
https://teatenerife.es/actividad/limite-y-come-to-venice/1943
From People do Water on going series
from Excess Island, in progress
