Indovarsi – Friedrich Andreoni

Friedrich Andreoni‘s research questions the sculptural and psychological dimensions of sound and matter. Through different media, including sculpture, sound, performance and video, he explores how these volumes inhabit the memory of space and time, moving between emission and reception, event and trace (what happens and what remains), literal and imagined, signified and meaningful. The video work Sometimes, created during the workshop Indovarsi, Andreoni plundges the underground water network of the Château de Fontainebleau into the haunting rendition of Odetta’s song “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child”. Recorded in the Chapel of Notre-Dame-de-la-Persévérance in Barbizon, the former studio of the French painter Théodore Rousseau, the melody loses its sharpness and blends into the atmospheric space of the chapel. Andreoni takes this ethereal recording into the Renaissance-era water network beneath Fontainebleau, following and filming the ancient paths of water.

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