{"uid":"3wFi0yEEhcx9ZfNG","type":"artist","tags":["painting","instalation"],"group":"no","group_name":null,"project_title":"Food for the Afterlife","summary":"For BIENALSUR 2021 I\u2019m presenting a body of work focused on the role of food and animal materials prepared for the afterlife in funerary rites. I began this research in  2019 in Turin at the Museo Nazionale Egizio (National Egyptian Museum) focusing on bread loaves and animal fat found in the tomb of Kha and Merit (1425-1535BC). I wish to expand this body of work by researching the practice of placing food parcels in coffins in Mapuche funerary rites. \n\nMy research began with the desire to explore matter as a repository of memory and energy. I became fascinated by the instability of the meaning of food found in tombs. Because it is meant to give life to the dead in another dimension (an afterlife), it exists in a limbo of symbolic and practical value. \n\nIn my practice there's an overlap between subject matter and the materiality of the paintings. I construct spaces following the logic of a ritual: endlessly repeated actions allow for the percolation of knowledge passed through time.\nThis ritualistic aspect of my work is ordered around a heightened sensitivity to materials, focussed both on their physical properties and their symbolism or meaning. The materials that interest me are those closely connected to the human body and its interaction with other species: hide, fur, humours, leather, fat, oils, rubber, waxes. These often simultaneously embody impulses of attraction and repulsion, and the instability this contradiction is critical to my practice.","space":"The works selected feature images of bread loaves and piles of animal fat and their surface has been treated with an oily substance I created out of beeswax and natural oils. \n\nThe large hanging (11x4m) from images 1,2 can be hung outdoors and has a metal supporting structure.\nThe smaller framed paintings hang perpendicularly to the wall so the back can be seen as well (image 4)","artists_proposal":null,"members":[],"lang":"en","status":"ok","video_link_password":null,"video_link":null,"audio_link_password":null,"audio_link":null,"images_link_password":null,"images_link":null,"cellphone":null,"description":null,"estimated_budget":null,"complementary_info":null,"names":"Virginia","surname":"Russolo","email":"virginiarussolo@gmail.com","dni_type":"Other","dni":"AY7438650","address":"Via Tre Piere 15, 31046 TV","city":"Oderzo","nacionality":"italian","country_id":"113","birthdate":"1995-08-08T22:00:00.000Z","birthdate_2":"1995-08-08T22:00:00.000Z","telephone":"+393920616644","web":"www.virginiarussolo.com \/ instagram:@virginiarussolo","fileCount":10}