Drawing on Origins
Elena Rocchi
Critical to my work is
RE_presentation as a link between ideas and physical reality.
Time and history meet
in it. I move between imagination and projection, prehistory and history, space
and time.
My future Residency at
Nirox Foundation (Aug/Sept 2012), headed ‘Drawing on Origins’, will be based on
drawing as my primary medium, and its fundamental means of expression
throughout human history.
The experience will
move trough 2 things: a personal artistic investigation and an architectural
workshop on the origins of man and enviroment, at a site near Malapa Cave where
one of mankind’s most significant discoveries was made by Lee Berger:
"A species of
early human has been discovered in a South African cave, shedding light on a
critical period during which our ancestors began to walk upright, use tools and
develop a capacity for language... a previously unknown type of hominid, the evolutionary
branch of primates that led to humans.”
The idea of the site as
drawing and the drawing of site is paramount to the entire project. As well the
subjects of drawing, writing and building.
Mapping, tracing, and
drawing on the larger environs of the cradle of humankind, incredible sites based on growth
centered around rocky craters.
The video presented at
the Nirox Foundation Stand at ARCO is an intial exploration into one of my
drawings of a Fossil Scull. An allegory on melancholy of a loss of a human life
link to the discovering of the scull of the Australopythecus Sediba in Malapa,
South Africa.
A flight over a drawing.
A flight on the
topography of a human beeing at first. And a fall on earth... till its dark
side, till the origin of humanity.
The entire project for
Nirox Foundation is about to DIS_appear and RE_appear on the other side of the
painting, in the timeless space of invention.
POSTCARDS SIZE 15 X 8
(more or less) in colour
