Indovarsi – Giovanna Repetto
Giovanna Repetto is a visual artist, her practice is characterized by a strong multidisciplinary imprint. Her gaze is focused on the limit between the real and the virtual, on the archeology of space and its representation. During her residency at the Fondazione Claudia Cardinale, she worked on the concept of involuntary memory, explicitly referring to the anecdote of Proust’s Madeleine. During the opening, she offered the public some madeleines baked collectively by the group in residence at Giovanna’s invitation. On the packaging that protects the shell-shaped cake are the individual memories of the workshop participants, evoking their own synesthetic experiences. Giovanna Repetto also presented a small pocket mirror that belonged to the actress and occults one side of it with a marker, as if to preserve it’s past memory. The other untouched reflective part is left active, as a space to record the present.
