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Danzando con Borromini

Photograph of flying silk within backdrops of Borromini's architecture.

How does the Baroque sculptor Bernini co-opt cloth to evoke emotional states? Can this cloth formation be reconfigured within Borromini’s architecture for similar artistic purposes? I was awarded the Rome Wingate Scholarship, at the British School at Rome (BSR) between 01/09/2008 - 01/02/2009, to investigate these specific questions with my proposition to photograph drapery in free fall within the context of the Baroque. My approach was unique and original because it revealed the architecture by creating a completely new series of artworks that exist as a fusion of the old within the context of a contemporary art form.

Dancing with Borromini was a series of colour digital inkjet prints widely exhibited as Danzando con Borromini at Gallerie Hybrida, Rome (September – October 2010) and in Tempo Reale, BSR and Avvolgere Svolgere , Nunziante Magrone, Rome in 2008.

My film was projected at 1-2-3-4-5-6 CRAAAK!! Rialto Santambroglio; S. Giovanni in Oleo, Porta Latina; Palazzo Falconieri and onto the Aurelian Wall at V.Fontana and Bites at ESC Atelier Occupato, San Lorenzo (all in Rome 2008).

Images from the series feature in The Languages of Colour, Ed.Alexandra Loske, Frogmore Press, May 2012; in Tempi d'estensione, Photocity Edizioni, Napoli (2012) and were reproduced with my text in the online journal, Dark Matter (2012).

The exhibition at Gallerie Hybrida led to an invitation to give my lecture Materiality of the Veil at Istituto Universitario Orientale, Naples University 2011. My visit was Erasmus funded.

From The Booth to Borromini led to the development of Light Curtain/Drop Sari as part of Cotton Global Threads, Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester; in particular in terms of the elements of drapery in motion contained and expanding from the architectural space. Both works sharing the framework of buildings that exist for the public and are places of worship or art appreciation.