In The Open
In The Open, 2017. Inkjet print, edition of 11, 59.4 × 84.9 cm.
Dulwich Festival Artists’ Open House
Building on the idea of house as body and body as home, Alessandra Sormani has invited the public into the home she has been living in. Paintings are displayed alongside sound recordings. The work explores in-between states and the edge in both their subject matter and the way they are displayed. Each canvas was painted while listening to sound recordings of her journeys, going out from the city to the coastline, and took the same amount of time to paint as the length of the journey made. The painting process revisits the trip connecting colours with the sounds from inside her car, associating artificial sound (music, sat nav, radio, signal interference, car engines, sirens) with natural sound (trees, rain, sea, wind, birds, nature). They are shown together with their respective audio on headphones. The works hang in rooms and hall ways around the house leading to the space where they were painted. Throughout the house, portable lo-fi speakers play recorded background noise from the space surrounding the paintings.
Studio, 2017.
Shower room
In The Open 2, 2017. Inkjet print, edition of 11, 59.4 × 84.9 cm.
In The Open 2 follows on from the previous Dulwich Festival Artists’ Open House. Alessandra Sormani reworked the paintings to the destination of Jeannie Avent Gallery in East Dulwich and were surrounded by the sounds of the artist painting them in her studio.
2:45:26, 2017. Oil on linen, with sound 150 × 120 cm
2:04:16, 2017. Oil on Linen with sound, 120 × 80 cm
Proceed to the route, 4:39:54, 2017. Oil on board with sound (6 parts)
Dulwich Festival, Jeannie Avent Gallery, 2018