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Cornicello

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Octave Cowbell
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"Cornicello" by artists Léa Cammarata & Louise Talarico

A house full about to be empty. Built brick by brick, decorated with thousands of knick-knacks that have been moved around a hundred times throughout the house, with walls that have been repainted multiple times. While exploring her grandparents' house, Italian immigrants who came to France in the 1950s, Léa Cammarata wondered how all these precious items brought from their country and those acquired in their adopted country would also disappear, be sorted, kept, thrown away, framed. In cinema, a set is built to last a few months, weeks, or days before disappearing. It's ephemeral; we create what are called "patinas" to age things and make them appear as if they've lived through numerous layers of lives. Somewhat the opposite of archaeologists who uncover objects to better conserve them. For this exhibition, Léa Cammarata invited video artist Louise Talarico, with whom she has worked for several years on the imagined and speculative life of objects. Both navigate between the worlds of cinema and contemporary art. They reconnected for this project starting from the idea of a "third territory" where worlds would have been moved then diluted. People imprinted with their land find themselves having to build elsewhere. An elsewhere already inhabited. Here, imagined ideas, whether cultural or personal, become relics, like objects left behind to testify to a living space. The scenography is a playground to bring places and objects back to life. From decorative sheets, they created a transitional space between ruins and home. They offer both the fiction and the décor of this fiction with Italy as the backdrop. The Cornicello, a good luck symbol, is represented in various forms throughout the exhibition and replicated. This obsessive variation, both in the manufacturing gesture and in the exhibition of the object, is a way of proving its existence. A maneuver to not forget, to remember. Like collectors. Succeeding the plaster walls, a black room inhabited by ghostly voices whose stories straddle dream and reality. They offer a place that has never existed, although it tries to represent their memories. Cornicello is an off-site exhibition of the contemporary art center - La synagogue de Delme in partnership with Octave Cowbell. It is conducted as part of the "Perspectives" program of ENSAD de Nancy and the "Emergence" scheme of the Grand Est Region.

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