To Disturb Somnulent Birds
THE MODERN INSTITUTE, GLASGOW, 2020
Sound by Alessio Dutto, vocalist Andrea Silvia Giordano
An installation that focuses on hypnagogia – the lucid phenomena experienced within the brief transitional state between wakefulness and sleep, seeking to stimulate the visual, tactile, auditory and other sensory hallucinations that occur at the threshold of consciousness.
A series of resin sculptures are displayed atop a replica of the improvised work bench in the artist’s studio, where the bird-like forms rotocast in coloured resin from clay models, studio ephemera and organic materials, pulsate with fluctuating light, illuminating the darkened space. Reminiscent of night-lights, the distorted silhouettes warp in and out of focus as if drowsy with the onset of sleep. Produced in collaboration with composer Alessio Dutto and vocalist Andrea Silvia Giordano, the
artist has written an accompanying lullaby combining the human voice and electronic sounds. Played through speakers installed within the cast buckets on which his working surface is raised, the entire structure reverberates with ambient sound.
From Federico García Lorca’s lecture, ‘On Lullabies’, 1928, derives both the exhibition’s title and a reference point for a body of work that desires not to delineate nor de ne, but suggest and stimulate, imagining and animating the liminal space between the corporeal experiences of waking life and mental wilderness of sleep.
To Disturb Somnulent Birds
THE MODERN INSTITUTE, GLASGOW, 2020
Sound by Alessio Dutto, vocalist Andrea Silvia Giordano
An installation that focuses on hypnagogia – the lucid phenomena experienced within the brief transitional state between wakefulness and sleep, seeking to stimulate the visual, tactile, auditory and other sensory hallucinations that occur at the threshold of consciousness.
A series of resin sculptures are displayed atop a replica of the improvised work bench in the artist’s studio, where the bird-like forms rotocast in coloured resin from clay models, studio ephemera and organic materials, pulsate with fluctuating light, illuminating the darkened space. Reminiscent of night-lights, the distorted silhouettes warp in and out of focus as if drowsy with the onset of sleep. Produced in collaboration with composer Alessio Dutto and vocalist Andrea Silvia Giordano, the
artist has written an accompanying lullaby combining the human voice and electronic sounds. Played through speakers installed within the cast buckets on which his working surface is raised, the entire structure reverberates with ambient sound.
From Federico García Lorca’s lecture, ‘On Lullabies’, 1928, derives both the exhibition’s title and a reference point for a body of work that desires not to delineate nor de ne, but suggest and stimulate, imagining and animating the liminal space between the corporeal experiences of waking life and mental wilderness of sleep.