Art / Anna Franchescini
Anna Franceschini Laws of Attraction at Spike
Spike Island is the venue for renowned Italian artist Anna Franceschini’s first solo exhibition in the UK. Franceschini’s videos and films have been selected for screening by numerous film festivals such as the 60th Locarno and the TFF/Torino Film Festivals. She has had residencies at the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten ,Amsterdam, ISCP< New York and Castello Malaspina, Fostdinove amongst other. Her work can also be seen in the permanent collections at the Musee National d’Art Moderne at the Centre Georges Pompidou , Paris, MACRO Museum, Rome, the Ariane de Rothschild Collection in Paris and the Nicoletta Fiorucci Collection in London.
Anna Franceschini’s preferred shooting locations include factories ,workshops and funfairs, anywhere which can be perceived a s a place of industrial production. In order to create a piece she frequently begins by isolating, or framing, a single object, device, machine or process, which as time passes begins to take on a life of its own. Thus freeing it from its functional use and context and transforming it into an object of poetic and aesthetic contemplation.
Anna Franceschini states that her art is essentially a ‘cinema of animation’ as she revisits and repurposes the history of the medium, from early image-recording devices to avant-garde, experimental or mainstream cinema. An example of this being the 2014 piece Before They Break, Before They Die, They Fly! (2014), where knick-knacks from a tourist gift shop start to levitate in a set-up worthy of a cheap sci-fi film.
For her show at Spike Island, Anna Franceschini will present work from the past five years comprising silent 16mm short films as well as single and multi-channel digital projections.
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