Alice Cattaneo
video, 2'00"
the jury awards Alice Cattaneo:
"for her ability to transform, with a rapid and instantaneous reworking, seemingly trivial micro-events into stories of extraordinary poetry, veined with humor for the effective direction of a filmic or scenic space whose protagonists are simple and everyday materials."
Alice Cattaneo was born in 1976 in Milan, where she lives.Solo exhibitions include those in 2008 at Madre in Naples and Suzy Shammah gallery in Milan, and 2007 at Ikon gallery in Birmingham. Group shows include the Quadriennale in Rome (2008) and Italics, Italian art between tradition and revolution, 1968-2008 at Palazzo Grassi in Venice (2008).
Precariousness is the hallmark of Alice Cattaneo, from Milan, 32, which in her case, unlike other artists who espouse this language, becomes programmatic. With a stubborn tension toward the unknown of objects that barely stand, Cattaneo dismantles the constructive principle of installation. The same sign of uncertainty assaults the semantic morphology of his videos, populated as they are by misunderstandings, visual short-circuits, alterations of meaning. Until all that remains is a dangerously intransitive image, despite the many movements that have accompanied it. Adriana Polveroni