Naso Naso National Front
Anna Raimondo

Name: Naso Naso National Front
Start: 2020-01-16 00:00:00
End: 2020-02-29 00:00:00
Location: Album Art

Album Art

Rome, Lazio, Italy

Curated by: Marco Trulli

The show

Thursday 16 January 2020 inaugurates at AlbumArte, an independent space for contemporary art, the personal exhibition of the artist Anna Raimondo entitled Fronte Nazionale Naso Partenopeo , curated by Marco Trulli. The exhibition will remain open until Saturday 29 February. The title of the exhibition is inspired by an inscription read by chance by the artist on the walls of Naples. The controversial theme of identity, ironically laid bare by this phrase, is at the center of the artist's exhibition which proposes a heterogeneous selection of works in which he finds a constant research that, starting from the intimate dimension, addresses central issues of a public and political, such as the question of the right to mobility or the de-construction of gender identities. With Nada que declarar (2019) the artist sets himself the goal of escaping the dominant and binary representation of gender.

In this work Raimondo combines a series of identikit photos that portray her naked with a megaphone in her pubis, together with a series of portraits by the students of the Buenos Aires Academy of Fine Arts in which the artist takes poses that allude to some nudes. famous women in the history of art. Thus an ambiguous representation is generated dictated by the use of the megaphone, which on the one hand amplifies the vaginal sounds and on the other alludes to a phallic form. The themes of religious and cultural identity, on the other hand, are addressed in Derrière la mer (2018), and In doubt (2016) with overlapping of symbols and different identity references. Starting from the universal and symbolic dimension of the sea, in the score of Derrière la mer, Raimondo intertwines extracts from interviews with some references to the sea found in the Bible and the Koran, interpreted by mezzo soprano Edka Jarząb and baritone Jérôme Porsperger. Finally, the foundation of a utopian party, the National Nose Partenopean Front, in which the artist opens a choral reflection on the daily micro-actions of transformation and social emancipation, through a preliminary work of interviews with Neapolitan activists and citizens. A (non) party, represented by a non-flag displayed together with various propaganda materials, with the aim of determining a friction with the present of the political debate. “Anna Raimondo's work is a place for meetings and exchanges, which feeds on listening in the process and in the final formalization with the public. The relational processes that the artist activates often question the construction of gender in everyday and public behavior, putting her daily feminism in dialogue with the attitude of other people. It can be defined as a journey into social diversity that facilitates and creates areas of possible interactions, dissonances, negotiation and choral creation of meaning. " (Nancy Casielles and N. Suarez, 2016)

Many of his works focus in a peculiar way on the creation of incursions into space and the public sphere, in his continuous attempt to recreate spaces and listening times within the urban landscape, thus creating devices of disorientation and dislocations of meaning. . Through the fluidity of sound the artist connects spaces, times and people and reflects on themes and identities removed from memory or society. The exhibition is therefore a liquid itinerary between sound works, relational projects and performative acts created by the artist in different parts of the world.

Photo Sebastiano Luciano, courtesy AlbumArte