Patricia Pisanelli works mainly with painting and sculpture - and the space where they collide. Exaggerated manipulations in language are her main research. Food is her vehicle.
Different materials are in play here: rubber tiles, astro-turf, carpet, wood, wax and silicone as well as processed foods like kraft cheese or kids design ham. Actions from traditional arts and craft techniques like coating and layering merge with actions present in food marketing such as slicing, topping and oozing. These elements are manipulated playing with this duality, forming objects through recipes of control and lawlessness. Attempt and failure. Attraction and repulsion - and the notion or perfection that can never be reached. As a hunt that ends up in utopia.
Suggesting the passage of time, sedimented layers of unidentified matter coat one another, sharing a space that is sealed, blown or sliced up. Fermenting blended particles that will be solidified.
Considering thoughts on simulacrum, where the copy of the copy looses its origin, those elements have now a narrative projected onto themselves, like a nostalgia for an unrecognized past.
Through ideas of misinterpretation and absurdity, such as the moments of confusion one experiences when trying to read an image or an object, Patricia uses the manipulation of food and the manipulation of materials in the same way, pointing at the exaggerated aesthetics of industrialized products and as an exercise of abstracting from it at the same time.
Patricia Pisanelli (b.1981, Sao Paul, Brazil) lives and works in London and completed her MA Fine Arts at Central Saint Martins in 2013. Recent exhibitions include Matter, County Hall Gallery, London 2019; Inside Job, Tate Modern, London, 2018; Fake, Science Gallery, Dublin, 2018; First Act: Smooth Operations, Laure Genillard Gallery, London, 2017/18; 4.42, 5th Base Gallery, London, 2017; Window 71, site specific, Tottenham, London, 2017; Fridges Fight Back, Bompas & Parr at KK Outlet, London, 2016; North & Found, Art Licks Weekend, London, 2015; Hix Award 2015, Cock’n’Bull Gallery, London, 2015; Jabberwocky, Ab/Anbar, Tehran, 2015; I’m not done II, Guest Projects, London, 2015; I’m not done, Islington Arts Factory, London, 2014.
Different materials are in play here: rubber tiles, astro-turf, carpet, wood, wax and silicone as well as processed foods like kraft cheese or kids design ham. Actions from traditional arts and craft techniques like coating and layering merge with actions present in food marketing such as slicing, topping and oozing. These elements are manipulated playing with this duality, forming objects through recipes of control and lawlessness. Attempt and failure. Attraction and repulsion - and the notion or perfection that can never be reached. As a hunt that ends up in utopia.
Suggesting the passage of time, sedimented layers of unidentified matter coat one another, sharing a space that is sealed, blown or sliced up. Fermenting blended particles that will be solidified.
Considering thoughts on simulacrum, where the copy of the copy looses its origin, those elements have now a narrative projected onto themselves, like a nostalgia for an unrecognized past.
Through ideas of misinterpretation and absurdity, such as the moments of confusion one experiences when trying to read an image or an object, Patricia uses the manipulation of food and the manipulation of materials in the same way, pointing at the exaggerated aesthetics of industrialized products and as an exercise of abstracting from it at the same time.
Patricia Pisanelli (b.1981, Sao Paul, Brazil) lives and works in London and completed her MA Fine Arts at Central Saint Martins in 2013. Recent exhibitions include Matter, County Hall Gallery, London 2019; Inside Job, Tate Modern, London, 2018; Fake, Science Gallery, Dublin, 2018; First Act: Smooth Operations, Laure Genillard Gallery, London, 2017/18; 4.42, 5th Base Gallery, London, 2017; Window 71, site specific, Tottenham, London, 2017; Fridges Fight Back, Bompas & Parr at KK Outlet, London, 2016; North & Found, Art Licks Weekend, London, 2015; Hix Award 2015, Cock’n’Bull Gallery, London, 2015; Jabberwocky, Ab/Anbar, Tehran, 2015; I’m not done II, Guest Projects, London, 2015; I’m not done, Islington Arts Factory, London, 2014.
