Orchard is a container of experiences in continuous evolution: an orchard located in the Genoese countryside where the artist and some friends have been living together for several years — the starting point of the project — which gives rise to multiple transpositions and resonates at a distance through a series of works and events that began in autumn 2010, marked by the passing of the seasons.

Christian Tripodina confronts the place time after time through his daily experience, his personal tendency to get lost, and a total surrender to the suggestions of time and space. The creation of a living structure within the orchard built entirely from reclaimed materials, the establishment of a sound archive evoking the place, some videos and installations are just some of the multiple forms taken by the artist’s narrative.

Orchard - Season #1 (CHAN, October 2010) focused on a long table-display, built with wood taken from the orchard, where natural elements and found objects coexist to recreate an archive of traces. In the second event, Orchard #2 - Coral gardens and their magic (Oratorio S. Bernardino, April 2011), the orchard was evoked in its sound dimension through a performance in which a recording made from the noises and sounds of life in the orchard was the centerpiece of a musical ritual. The reference to the exotic and exoticism was instead prevalent in Orchard #3 - Cafhage (Palazzo Lomellino, November 2011), where the natural starting environment was confronted with video images of a tropical yet absolutely native space.

The next event, Orchard - Season #4 (Careof, May 2012), is conceived as the final stage of the project. Christian Tripodina designs an installation, conceived as a diorama inserted into the Careof space. The suggestion of the orchard here unfolds into a rarefied, light dimension, where the viewer is invited to reconstruct an absent place through various visual fragments. Delicate colored textures spread throughout the space, suggesting clues of a landscape that emerges with great force from this evocative dimension. Or there is the video, in which the house built by the artist and his friends living in the orchard reveals itself in an apparition between the phantasmagoric and the mysterious. On the occasion of Orchard – Season #4, the book documenting the four events will be presented, a publication that gathers texts and visual material produced throughout the project. Also on display will be the vinyl — produced in a limited edition — which collects the sonic memory of the place. Texts by: Ivan Bargna, Matteo Casari, Anna Daneri, Gilda Della Ragione, Carlotta Pezzolo, and Hilda Ricaldone. Sound contributions by: Benjamin Altermatt, Marco Lampis.