Darnau o Ddaear
Eryri and Etna, two contrasting territories, both formed by volcanic activity, their cultures and landscapes have evolved through a strong connection between rural communities and the land.
Drawing inspiration from her home region in Sicily the North Welsh region Eryri, the artist Giovanna Vinciguerra brings into dialogue her work with the artist Moss Carroll to discuss their cultural identities and connections with their homelands.
The exhibition Darnau o Ddaear, creates cultural dissemination between these two territories connecting them through a series of exhibitions displayed in Wales and Sicily, Immigrating the visions of both artists bringing their experiential knowledge together to form a meeting of these two different places.
The gallery MoMa Machynlleth. Wales
The gallery Studio 71. Palermo
Sellerine
These nails are typically used for stretching canvases. Each nail pins many stories. These blocks of school notebooks, nailed at different heights represent the time of dreams, hopes and the possibilities of each individual child; dictated by the social limits of development that can be found based on their places of belonging.
Darnau o Defaid
Terracotta and acrylic
Missing VIII-IX-X
photograph, terracotta and oil on glass
Rings
An installation composed of thirty-six rings arranged on the wall in a single linear sequence: thirty-five in terracotta and one in bronze. The work operates as a reflective device on the concept of bond as an intrinsically ambivalent condition, suspended between belonging and constraint, rootedness and limitation.
The historical reference to the iron rings once embedded in the walls of Catania, used to restrain working animals, introduces an archaeological dimension to the sign, one that has today almost entirely disappeared. These elements bear witness to a past in which the relationship between human, animal and space was an integral part of everyday life.
In their semantic shift into the present, the rings become signifiers of the invisible bonds that still structure experience, habits, memories, fears, opening a reflection on the tension between stillness and the possibility of transformation. Within this threshold sits the Sicilian saying “moviti femmu”: a figure of paradoxical stasis that condenses the idea of movement without displacement.
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