Anna Scalfi Eghenter. The Fluo Swan.
Opening 19 September, 7PM
Performance 26 & 28 September 2024, H 17.00
Curated by Francesca Verga and Zasha Colah
Humanity is at the mercy of now established catastrophes and other events previously considered impossible yet tangible, consequences of human actions on territorial, social and climate structures. We all know, although the Anthropocene began with us, it will probably end without us. Nonetheless, people have already become familiar with finitude, with immobility. And they continue to live their lives, getting used to every new event that subverts everyday habits.
It is with this baggage of contemporary immobility that we explore Anna Scalfi Eghenter’s project for Ar/Ge Kunst, "The Fluo Swan" which is open to the public since September 19, 2024. Ar/Ge Kunst here becomes a business, one in which individuals may enter into a contractual performance: people will be able to make insurances to compensate for the institutional shortcomings in defending the rights of the people, in the face of a rare, unpredictable and unimagined possible event: that known as a black swan.
PERFORMANCE, within BAW programme (Bolzano Art Weeks):
September 26, 17.00
September 28, 17.00
Anna Scalfi Eghenter (1965) uses her artistic practice as an instrument to intervene in the laboratory of reality. With a PhD in Management Studies from the Essex Business School, an MSc in Sociology from the University of Trento, an MFA from the Accademia Nazionale d’Arte Drammatica „Silvio D’Amico“ and the Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera. Her works have been presented also at the Tiroler Landesmuseum Ferdinandeum Innsbruck supported by Italian Council11, at the 16th Quadriennale d’Arte di Roma, MAXXI Museo Nazionale delle Arti del XXI Secolo in Rome, the MAMBO Museo d’Arte Moderna di Bologna, the Biennale Democrazia in Turin, Kadist Art Fondation Paris, the Real Academia de España en Roma, Palais de la Bourse Brussels; Fondazione Galleria Civica di Trento, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo in Guarene, MART Museo d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto and Manifesta 7 parallel events. She has also displayed at Università degli Studi di Torino, Freien Universität Bozen, FBK Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Università di Venezia Ca’ Foscari, Akademia Pedagogiczna Kraków, Freie Universität Berlin, ESCP-EAP Paris and the Università degli Studi di Trento. www.scalfieghenter.com
