Hanne Lippard
Ruin
Nell'area absidale della chiesa al di sotto del foro, si sente un "singhiozzio" provenire dall'interno di un vaso in terracotta, un suono che appartiene al corpo umano, criptico ma familiare che si rivolge verso l'ampia volta celeste. ruin installato al centro della chiesa intorno al cerchio di terra, è un sermone laico che parla dell'edificio in essere, mettendo in relazione il cielo sopra di noi e la terra su cui ci troviamo.
Hanne Lippard (Milton Keynes, 1984) explores the social forms that govern discourse. Her artistic practice, which mainly takes the form of reading and sound installations, investigates the voice as an instrument of emancipation and alienation in times of hyper-connectivity. By mixing personal thoughts and appropriating texts from advertising, slogans and newspaper articles, the text becomes a mix of private and public that regains inventiveness and authorship through the use of the voice, becoming a body of its own. Her recent artistic research has focused on the use of the female body as a container of sounds, on the conscious and unconscious automation of speech and language. Recent exhibitions and performances include: Le language est une peau, FRAC Lorraine, Metz (2021); Contact, Mood, Share at MHKA, Antwerp, (2021); X, Frac des Pays de la Loire, Carquefou (2020); RIBOCA2, Riga (2020); ART 4 ALL, Hamburger Bahnhof (2020); Our present, Museum fur Gegenwartskunst, Siegen (2020); Parades for FIAC, Palais de la Découverte (2019); Art Night London (2019); Goethe in the Skyways, Minneapolis, (2019); n.b.k. Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlino (2019); Nam June Paik Award, 2018; Westfälischer Kunstverein, Münster (2018); Ulyd, Kunsthall Stavanger, Stavanger and FriArt, Friburgo (2018).
Grottole is an Italian town of about 2,000 inhabitants in the province of Matera. Located on the top of the Motta hill, slightly detached from the town, the castle of Grottole is said to have been built at the request of the Lombard prince Sichinolfo of Salerno in 851. The church of San Rocco, also known as the church of Santa Maria La Grotta, is dedicated to the patron saint of Grottole. Inside, in the main nave, there is a precious polyptych by the artist Pietro Antonio Ferro, dating back to the seventeenth century and depicting The Seven corporal works of mercy. In the historic centre, you will also find the remains of the Church of SS.Luca and Giuliano, commonly known as the Diruta Church. The church however remained unfinished and was hit by a series of earthquakes as well as by various fires. It is now an evocative and monumental ruin that rises above the village.