![]() Instead of telling me about their lives, I ask them to draw me some very Then, during our conversations, we begin to draw. “I come up with a new ritual: I give all of I ask whether there is a way to break this spell.” Like a mantra, the story of their life is a text to be Life in brief snippets, repeated once, or ten or twenty times. “Each of them is used to talking about their STELLA MARIS, A retrospective diary, 2018 Version, which frees itself from one imaginary world to reach another.” This is what I want to avoid: I would like to arrive at a pure, distilled Talk about old people: kitchens full of knick-knacks, colourful pot-holders,Ĭlose-ups of hands marked by the years, voices trembling as they talk about the Invisible bubbles which are space-time portals. “I am interested in the time within time, like the STELLA MARIS #1, c-print, 150 x 100cm, ed. ![]() The artist’s book, a compilation of stories, drawings, and photographs by the guests of the views from the nursing home are made on a special transparent paper, the same paper the residents used for drawings during the months of the artist’s presence in the hospital. Part of these drawings were transformed into vector images, which were engraved with laser cutting on stainless steel. In the second phase of the project, the artist, along with three residents of the structure, Giulio, Annamaria and Nerina, decided to build a map of their imaginations, letting them draw and cataloging a sign-atlas of their memories and their daily thoughts. The various explorations and constructions of the pictures were filmed and displayed daily to guests in their rooms. Once the photographic silhouettes were made, she studied the tides and reaections of the lights in the lagoon’s landscape and installed the silhouettes in the water, photographing them again through a view camera. The collected shapes are transformed into photographic silhouettes of the waters that are daily seen from the guests’ windows. The artist, after collecting a series of audio, written, and video interviews during her long stay at Stella Maris, picked up pieces of bark from the hospital park trees and transformed them into abstract portraits. Stella Maris is a structure for the elderly who are no longer self- suf cient that is situated between a strip of land separating the Adriatic Sea from the Venetian lagoon. Rachele Maistrello uses the landscape surrounding a nursing home to give shape to the imagination and perceptions of the guests who lived there, trying to eliminate any element attributable to the physical and mental deprivation consumate with their years. ![]() of 25, 2017 | Stella Maris, a retrospective diary fanzine, 2018 The Sea and the Bells, artist’s book, ed. The Stele of Stella Maris, Stainless Stele, unique, 2017
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