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De Falco Carmela
BORDERLESS
Mediterranea 20
Young Artists Biennale
De Falco Carmela

Artwork: As Far As It Can Reach (2025, participative performance), As Far As My Body Can Reach (Naples) (2022, video, 4’45’’) / Umetniško delo: Kolikor daleč lahko seže (2025, participativni performans), Kolikor daleč lahko seže moje telo (Neapelj) (2022, video, 4’45’’)

 

 

As Far As It Can Reach is a participative performance that explores collective memory and the relationship with the Other through the concept of borders. Inhabitants of Gorizia and Nova Gorica, positioned across Transalpina Square, use small mirrors to create reflections with sunlight, symbolising movement across the boundary. This act forms a new, fragile horizon line, representing a border shaped by the aggregation and alliance of bodies in a specific time and place.


As Far As My Body Can Reach (Naples) portrays the sunlight, the artist reflects through a small mirror. The attempt is to create a communication space between inside and outside through a reflection that becomes an extension and projection of the body. The glow starts from the house and reaches the street and the buildings opposite until it disappears. The work is part of an ongoing archive of footage taken in different places.


Carmela De Falco was born in 1994 in Avellino, Italy. She graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Naples, Italy, where she lives and works. Her research focuses mainly on two themes: analysing the relationships between different types of language and their respective communication models and interpreting and representing space, public or private. Her works are formalised in videos, performances, photographs, and environmental and sound installations.


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Kolikor daleč lahko seže je participativni performans, ki raziskuje kolektivni spomin in odnos do Drugega s konceptom meja. Prebivalci Gorizie in Nove Gorice, postavljeni na Trg Transalpina/Trg Evrope, z majhnimi ogledalci ustvarjajo odseve sončne svetlobe, kar simbolizira gibanje preko meje. To dejanje oblikuje novo, krhko linijo obzorja, ki predstavlja mejo, to pa oblikuje povezovanje teles v določenem času in kraju.


Kolikor daleč lahko seže moje telo (Neapelj) upodablja sončno svetlobo, ki jo umetnica odseva skoz majhno ogledalce. Delo poskuša ustvariti komunikacijski prostor med notranjostjo in zunanjostjo skozi refleksijo, ki postane podaljšek in projekcija telesa. Sij se začenja v hiši in seže na ulico ter na stavbe, dokler ne izgine. Delo je del nastajajočega arhiva posnetkov, narejenih v različnih krajih.


Carmela De Falco se je rodila leta 1994 v Avellinu v Italiji. Diplomirala je na Akademiji za likovno umetnost v Neaplju v Italiji, kjer živi in ​​dela. Njeno raziskovanje se osredotoča predvsem okrog dveh osi: prva se nanaša na analizo odnosov med različnimi vrstami jezika in njihovimi komunikacijskimi modeli, druga pa temelji na interpretaciji in reprezentaciji prostora, javnega ali zasebnega. Dela predstavlja z videi, s performansi, fotografijami ter z okoljskimi in zvočnimi instalacijami.

 
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