19 novembre 2009 - 9 gennaio 2010, New Jork (USA)
The Storefront for Art and Architecture present the exhibition “At Land: Bodyscape & Cityscape” by Marina Ballo Charmet. The work of photographer and artist Marina Ballo Charmet, whose formal training is as a psychoanalyst, is centered on what she describes as “inattentive, unintentional observation, irrational and without direction”. This retrospective exhibition, curated by critic and writer Jean-Francois Chevrier, presents a selection of photographic and video works produced since 1995 that investigate a variety of subjects ranging from the ordinary and the mundane in the urban landscape to the human figure. Ballo Charmet’s work constitutes less an attempt to provide a pictorial rendition of these subjects than an endeavour to evoke the “unperceived” in our daily experiences. Her photographs of the urban landscape concentrate on shreds of the city: details of sidewalks, the upper levels of buildings that pulse in and out of the margins of our field of view; her exploration of the human figure concentrate on specific areas of the body, such as that between the breast and the mouth (the first field of view a baby becomes familiar with). The images featured in her Parks series - an ongoing project that has taken her to public parks in Milan, London, Berlin, Paris, Rome, Vienna, Madrid, Lisbon, Palermo and New York - are framed from a viewpoint close to the ground, revealing each park as its own universe. Ballo Charmet’s work is less an exercise in representation of her chosen subjects - whether they be details of cities, urban landscapes, portions of the human figure or parkscapes - than an investigation of how we perceive them. Info: tel +1 212 4315795 fax +1 212 4315755 e-mail: info@storefrontnews.org - www.storefrontnews.org