{"id":5547,"date":"2019-03-27T07:50:10","date_gmt":"2019-03-27T07:50:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.visionquest.it\/index.php\/2019\/03\/27\/alessandra-calo-kochan\/"},"modified":"2019-06-17T12:27:54","modified_gmt":"2019-06-17T12:27:54","slug":"alessandra-calo-kochan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.visionquest.it\/index.php\/2019\/03\/27\/alessandra-calo-kochan\/?lang=en","title":{"rendered":"Alessandra Cal\u00f2 – KOCHAN"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Curated by\u00a0Clelia Belgrado
\nOpening:\u00a0Saturday 6 April, 2019 from 6 pm<\/strong><\/p>\n

Duration: 9\u00a0April \u2013 1 June, 2019
\nLocation: VisionQuest 4rosso –\u00a0Piazza Invrea 4 r, 16123 Genova
\n+39 010 2464203 – +39 335\u00a0 6195394
\nHours: From Tuesday to Saturday 3 pm \u2013 7 pm, and by appointment<\/p>\n

The artist will attend the Opening Reception<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\u201cWhen art takes over cartography, neutrality and objectivity are no longer keywords and artists, far from expressing certainties, draw the maps of our doubts, of our struggles, of our dreams.\u201d<\/em>
\nThierry Ruffieux<\/p>\n

KOCHAN<\/strong> is a photographic project that Cal\u00f2 began in 2016. Inspired by her discovery of the New York Public Library\u2019s extensive online archival documents, she would spend entire days surrounded by geographical maps, manuscripts and letters. But, it was the maps that she was most attracted to – their signs and traces inspired her to translate them into a series of self-portraits.
\nThe word \u201cKochan\u201d, is the name of the protagonist of Confessions of a Mask by Yukio Mishima, 1949. Mishima\u2019s work is a sort of travel diary, which accompanies the reader as they discover fragments of the protagonist\u2019s life and identity.
\nIn this very elegant and intense personal “journey”- where maps and archival materials overlap with areas of the body and vice versa – Cal\u00f2 relentlessly records our universal states of mind; the fantasies, turmoils, pains and joys that follow each of us in our trial and error efforts as we search for ourselves. She does so with a such a sincere and meticulous commitment, seeking to provoke those who look at her images, to push into their most hidden and private places.
\nStarting from reflections on the concept of identity, in this project, just like Kochan, Cal\u00f2 tries to imagine the journey that each person makes to discover and affirm themselves, considering the body as a territory to explore.
\nUndoubtedly not a simple journey: “I wanted to compare the body to a territory to explore, as in a journey where the map gives you no coordinates,\u201d explains Cal\u00f2, \u201cIn this photographic project, I have superimposed images and archive documents and, for the first time, I decided to insert a contemporary human element. In particular, I stood in front of the camera, choosing to make my identity – physical and intellectual – the subject of this research ”
\nHer refinement and visual delicacy are very similar to the way in which Mishima, with words of absolute beauty, wrote of love and desire, of the body and the soul, indicating the deeply painful struggle with oneself in the search for one’s own identity.
\nIn all her projects Cal\u00f2 works mostly with archival images, documents, found photos and literary texts – the recovery and re-use of materials are always the starting point of her research and artistic production. The construction of her stories is often the result of an overlapping of images that, combined, give life to a new image to be discovered.
\nThe work she accomplishes with archival material, allows her to create new universes and tell new stories each time, as well as being a real journey into the photographic image.<\/p>\n

Technical information<\/span>
\nFine art prints on Hahnem\u00fchle Phot Rag Bright paper, frame.
\nVarious Dimensions
\nEdition of 3 + 2 a.p.<\/p>\n

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