That Tenacious Thread of Desire
/ Site-specific project with art installations and video projection /
Alessandra Caccia
Curated by Federica Elena
Italian artist Alesandra Caccia has documented her experience of living with dialysis for the last 20 years. Her ongoing series of photographs “The Body I Inhabit” is a tenacious resistance to remain attached to a body fighting to survive each day.
This series conveys the intimate reality of her struggle to endure pain, organ transplants, tubes attached to her body, living in hospitals, but most of all, to record through photography, that she returned again and again to hope.
Hope to say: this matters, the severing of her body, the years fighting to keep her breath alive, the uncertainty of her life - the endurance of a body existing within a dual construct of death over life, this all shall be marked in time by these images, along with the love she had for herself to wake up each morning and accept this reality and keep fighting.
Free from stereotypical-speculative practices, Alessandra explores the authentic dimension of human experience through photography and video as her favorite media. Caccia provides documentary evidence of her life, where illness, pain, happiness, sexuality, sensuality are experiences sublimated by a unique feminine awareness.
In the site-specific project for MONO, Caccia imagines an emotional journey, where the figures discover an anatomical intimacy that evokes a new space like an habitable body. An invisible thread that leads the spectator to lose and rediscover herself/himself, inside and outside and to collapse through the subtle force of desire. Only those who enter will be able to listen to this impetus with its upsurges and its falls, its pains and its desires.
International Videoart Festival Encantada - Museo Federico Fellini, Rimini; Videoinsight Foundation Gasling, Love, Bombing The Phair Photo Art Fair, Torino; Vetrine di Libertà Book, MAMBO, Bologna; Il ritardo è possibilità, MACRO, Roma; Talk and Screening Archivio Farini DOCVA, Milano; Endless Residency, La Fabbrica del Vapore, Milano; Quarta Vetrina, Libreria delle Donne, Milano; In my Room - Mars, Milan Artist Run Space; Milano; Video Festival Projector, Madrid; Vir Open Studio Farini, Milano; Resilienza Italiana, Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa,Venezia; Artype, Basilica Palladiana, Vicenza; 39 ̊Festival du Nouveau Cinéma de Montréal; Diari Immaginari, Auditorium Parco della Musica, Roma; Video.it, Fondazione Merz, Torino; Visualcontainer Video box Gallery, Milano; Play Festival, Berlino; Alta Attenzione, MIART; Biennale Internazionale di Fotografia, Sofia; Milano Film Festival; Filmmaker International Film Festival, Milano.