Meris Angioletti - Il Paradigma indiziario
Il Paradigma Indiziario
Project by Meris Angioletti
2009
Video DVD, 13’50’’
Meris Angioletti. Il paradigma indiziario represents the third stage of Ritratti. Percorsi Video a Milano, a multi-year project of video productions on the City of Milan commissioned annually by Careof to Italian and international artists, in collaboration with the Province of Milan.
Invited to create a video work for this third edition, Meris Angioletti focused her attention on underground Milan. Beneath the city that lives in daylight lies another, invisible one—largely unexplored—that preserves traces and historical testimonies of the past. Crypts, wells, tunnels, and canals make up an unknown Milan: from the famous undergrounds of the Castello Sforzesco, to the more modern bunkers in via Mecenate, the air-raid shelters in via Adriano and the Central Station, including catacombs and secret passages. An unprecedented, secret Milan, full of mystery. Meris Angioletti explores these places without overlooking the connection with the people who inhabited them. Starting from historical research, her work fades into a fascinating narrative, where even the least significant data lead back to a complex and unverifiable reality. The architectural structures of the underground spaces and the stories related to them are diverse and, at times, very different, but what unites them in the artist’s work is a journey through time, memory, and the almost archaeological reconstruction of lived experience. The underground thus becomes a mental image, a memory, a projection.
The project included the collaboration of the duo Richard Sympson, selected by Careof from the artists in its Video Archive. Richard Sympson (Cosimo Pichierri and Marco Trinca Colonel) offered their own interpretation of the project through photography, documenting the access routes to the sites observed by Meris Angioletti. Their contribution took the form of postcards sent to Careof from mailboxes near each underground location.
With the support of Fondazione Cariplo and the Province of Milan.
BIOGRAPHY
Meris Angioletti's research investigates the relationship between mental mechanisms and linguistic forms, the dynamics of manifestation and concealment, and the filmic space as ritual space, stemming from all types of narration. Her work—spanning video, performance, collage, photography, and tapestry—has always lingered in that indistinct area between art and science, where it becomes difficult to distinguish the creative process from the scientific method.
Meris Angioletti was born in Bergamo in 1977 and currently lives and works in Paris. After studying photography at the Accademia di Brera and CFP Bauer, she took part in residencies at Le Pavillon–Palais de Tokyo and the ISCP (International Studio and Curatorial Program) in New York.
Mostre recenti: 2019, Le jour des esprits est notre nuit, CRAC Alsace, Altkirch, 2019, La morale dei singoli, doutdo 2018-2019, Palestra Grande, Parco Archeologico di Pompei 2018; FormePensiero (solo), Otto Zoo, Milan; 2017, L’anneau et le livre (solo), YGREC, Paris;
2016, Le Grand Jeu (solo) FRAC Champagne-Ardenne, Reims; 2015, Nietzsche, Cyclists and Mushrooms, Kunstraum Riehen, Riehen (CH); 2014, Un nouveau festival, Centre Pompidou, Paris; 2013, Langages: Entre le dire et le faire, Fondation Calouste Gulbenkian, Paris, L’apparition des images, Fondation d’entreprise Ricard, Paris; 2012, A iminência das poéticas – 30th São Paulo Biennial; 2011, La Galérie, Noisy-Le-Sec (solo), IllumiNations –54th Venice Biennial; 2010, 21×21, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin, Rudolf Steiner und die Kunst der Gegenwart, Kunstmuseum
Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg; 2009, I describe the way and meanwhile I am proceeding along it, Fondazione Galleria Civica di Trento (solo), Ginnastica Oculare, Gamec-Galleria d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Bergamo (solo); 2008, T2-Le 50 Lune di Saturno, Turin, Heavier then air, ITCA_Re-reading the future, Triennale di Praga.
SCHEDA TECNICA
Production: Careof in collaboration with the Province of Milan
Filming and editing: Angelo Boriolo and Meris Angioletti
Sound and live recording: Francesco Mattuzzi
Photography: Laura Fantacuzzi
Voices: Alma Brioschi, Piera Panetti, Claudia Ninni, Franco Torti
Introductory voice: Giusi Cornici
