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'Cornicello' by artists Léa Cammarata & Louise Talarico Exhibition from January 24 to April 5, 2025 Opening on Thursday, January 23 at 6 PM

There is a house full that will soon be empty. Built brick by brick, decorated with thousands of trinkets that have been moved hundreds of times throughout the house, the walls re-re-re-painted too. By exploring her grandparents' house, Italian immigrants who arrived in France in the 50s, Léa Cammarata wondered how all these things, so precious, brought from their country and those acquired in their country of adoption, would also disappear, be sorted, kept, thrown away, framed.

In cinema, a set is built that lives a few months, weeks, or days and then disappears. It's ephemeral, creating what we call "patinas" to age things and make believe they have lived and traversed layers of lives, a bit unlike archaeologists who unearth objects to better preserve them.

For this exhibition, Léa Cammarata invited video artist Louise Talarico with whom she has been working for some years on the fantasized and speculated life of objects. Both navigate between the cinema and contemporary art fields.

They reunited for this project starting from the idea of a "third territory" in which worlds would have been displaced and then diluted. People imprinted by their land, finding themselves having to build elsewhere. An already inhabited elsewhere. It is there that fantasized ideas, whether cultural or personal, become relics, like objects left in place to bear witness to a living space.

The scenography is a playground to revive places and objects. It is from decorative sheets that they created a transitional space between ruins and a house. They propose both a fiction and the decor of this fiction where Italy is the support. The Cornicello, a good luck symbol, is represented in the exhibition in various forms and in a replicated manner. This obsessive declination, both in the act of making and in the exhibition of the object, is a means of experiencing its existence. A maneuver not to forget, to remember. Like collectors. Following the plaster walls, a black room inhabited by ghostly voices whose narratives straddle dream and reality. They propose a place that never existed, although it attempts to represent their memories.

Cornicello is an off-site exhibition from the contemporary art center - La synagogue de Delme in partnership with Octave Cowbell. It is part of the 'Perspectives' program of ENSAD Nancy and the 'Emergence' scheme of the Grand Est Region.

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