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New connections for Art in a Digital World: a talk with Annie Ratti e Giorgio Verzotti

Annie Ratti will be in conversation with Giorgio Verzotti

What is the function of the work of art in an era of digital communication in which social networks instantly connect us with the entire hyper-capitalised world? Annie Ratti’s work focuses on the everyday experience of the human body. She makes different kinds of habitable structures and spaces; most recently ‘wearable sculptures’ (including hats, kimonos and blankets) that playfully elaborate (and subtly critique) the orgonic principles of the late Wilhelm Reich. These sculptures instantiate a range of unseen procedures for experiencing the self that are at odds with the fast time of digital connectivity. But in a very specific manner, since Ratti’s Reich is somehow proposing us to counter-perform it in the time-space of the exhibition.

As an artist Annie Ratti works within a transdisciplinary research framework, that draws on different fields, many of which are at the margins of mainstream science. She has for instance explored the medicinal and cultural significance of psylocibin mushrooms; and more recently Wilhelm Reich’s theories of orgonic energy. Her recent sculptures engage actively (one might definitively say performatively) with the spaces they inhabit, offering a kind of speculative physicality that opens an experimental relationship with their audience; one that enables a differently connected and less hyper-mediated experience of self.

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Annie Ratti is an artist based in London. In 1995 she founded the Advanced Course in Visual Arts, now Artists Research Laboratory, at Fondazione Antonio Ratti (Como, Italy), which she has directed since then. The CSAV – Artists Research Laboratory is an experimental platform designed to provoke formal and informal discussions and exchanges among artists of different generations and nationalities. Annie Ratti has exhibited widely, in Italy and overseas, and her works are included in public institutions and collections, such as Drinking Fountain (2009) and Tête à tête (1999) permanently displayed at Whitechapel Gallery, London. Her recent exhibitions include Oggetti Funzionali, Zoo Zone Art Forum, Rome (2017), Lallazioni (with Bruna Esposito), Auditorium della Musica, Rome (2015), Self: Portraits of Artists in their absence, National Academy Museum, New York (2015), /seconds, Sharjah Art Foundation, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates (2014).

Giorgio Verzotti is curator, journalist, art critic and professor at the Università Cattolica in Brescia. He is a member of the Scientific Committee of Antonio Ratti Foundation in Como and of the Arnaldo Pomodoro Foundation in Milan. He is presently the external adviser of the MART – Modern and Contemporary Art Museum in Trento and Rovereto.

Image Courtesy of The Artist and Amanda Wilkinson Gallery