PARALLEL NARRATIVES
2017
Recently, I discovered a collection of notes and pictures part of the collaborative work between Paul Auster and Sophie Calle. This partnership started in the Nineties with Double Game, a book where the relationship between literary fiction and reality was constantly mutating:
art imitated life / life imitated art.
During the last year, the artist and the author, decided to start a project taking place in Venice, inside and outside the abandoned church of S.Maria del Pianto. The aim of the project was to create a room in the present for a place destined to be erased from the passing of time by bringing the stage of life from the outside of the church to the inside (and viceversa). Once again the two artists worked on duality questioning the role of the director and the role of the viewer, not accepting the division between audience and stage.
The project and the derived exhibition wants to create a pretext for the design of a space for experiences and meetings, where every visitor can create his own narrative starting from the fictitious relationship designed from the two artists.
