Raffaella Cortese is delighted to present an expansion of the conversation between Luisa Lambri and Silvia Bächli, dedicated to the intrinsic relationship between medium and gesture merging into a bodily experience of light and space, nature and architecture.
Lambri’s work occupies a unique space between photographic abstraction and spatial exploration of architecture. Frequently working in series, she isolates details and qualities of light to build intimate readings of the captured environments.
Silvia Bächli, among the most celebrated Swiss artists, has dedicated her research to drawings that balance abstraction and hints at the figurative, narration and action, in a language of “eyes, irregular bodies, duplications, clothes, architectures, structures” (Konrad Bitterli, 2012), exploring new ways of measuring the world by bodily gestures.
The works by Helen Mirra, Allyson Strafella, Joan Jonas, Monica Bonvicini, Miroslaw Balka, and Alejandro Cesarco trace and expand the observation on these relationships, investigating media such as weaving, typing, video, photography, sculpture.
Specific gestures and gazes fundamentally exist in the space they inhabit: they come alive or are actually born in the specificity of their installation, of their physical provenance, of their relation to the surface and surroundings.
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