Future Identities.Bodies.Places.Spaces

PROJECT DESCRIPTION

This work is Cassola’s interpretation of the theme Women’s Empowerment and Gender Equality of “The Zero Hunger Challenge” / UN - Expo 2015 selected at "Future Identities – Bodies.Places.Spaces”, a festival focused on the relationship between body and space and the hybridization between identities and cultural/physical/social/urban settings in contemporary time. People, backgrounds, societies, progress, cities and all their inputs create hybrid identities, modifying each other and being mixed in the prospect of shaping a better world. The festival aims to conduct research and to offer artists and audiences a 360° experience about the body, conceived not only as a material organic system connected to space, but also as an evolving organism with peculiar sensations, feelings and characteristics.

In this project the artist built a closed (from bottom to top) tent/hut made of linen fabric. She positioned the body inside. From there, she used hands and feet to engage with the fabric walls of the tent and experience the outside world. Like a baby in the mother’s womb obstacles and limits of space were encountered. The work results in a series of photographs all linked together. Each image can be moved and exchanged recalling the experience.