And agglomerations, of trees or, reading-performance for spoken choir.
Photo ©Louise Martig

 
Expanded Poetry, Agglomerated Poetry. Solo exhibition by Alessandro De Francesco at Dreiviertel art space in Bern, Switzerland, curated by Anna Fatyanova, April 2024.

"In this exhibition at Dreiviertel, poetry opens a space in the space, bringing people together. Language becomes environment and movement. Books become sculptures. Sculpture is not sculpted but part of nature. Voice disappears in its texture but a spoken choir brings it back, and a digital ghost inhabits the room, carrying a poem for everyone." (Alessandro De Francesco)

The opening featured a choral reading-performance (with Ido Chae, Laila Dell’Anno, Maurice Ehrensperger, Sergio Leitao, Erin Mallon, Anna Christina Möll, Giulietta Mottini, Oscar Vaurs, and Dario Zeo).

The exhibition was conceived from Alessandro’s artist/poetry book “And Agglomerations, of Trees or”, translated from the Italian by Max Norman, published by Mousse in 2022 and produced by Marco Mazzi / Villa Rondinelli.

One text from the book inhabited the Mixed Reality interactive installation And I conceive the morning while you talk to me.

Other books by the artist were exhibited as pieces in their own right, together with a sound installation, Il grande canto sciamanico for digitally processed spoken voice (listen HERE), and a sculptural piece of the Objets cherchés series.

And I conceive the morning while you talk to me, poetry environment in Mixed Reality. Photo ©Louise Martig

And agglomerations, of trees or, Milan: Mousse Publishing 2022. Photo ©Alessandro De Francesco / Mousse Publishing

Finissage reading from And agglomerations, of trees or. Photo ©Anna Fatyanova

Opening moment of Expanded Poetry, Agglomerated Poetry. Photo ©Louise Martig

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