Calle Mayor 54
Lumbier, Navarra Spain
https://callemayor54.com/about/
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Image credit Lucia Marchesin
Residency program since 2017, it was 1920 house where artists are invited to reflect and produce art in a small village surrounded by magnificent nature. Through my Curatorial residency in Lumbier, Navarra Spain, I have had the pleasure to meet two amazing international artists; Lucia Marchesin from Italy and Amanda Selinder from Sweden.
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Lucia Marchesin-The Orizzonte Project
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The Orizzonte Project idea was born in 2017 in the mountains of the Dolomites until it finality took place in 2018 among the landscapes of Spain. It is a journey of investigation in places where you lose yourself and open your mind: looking the nature that surrounds us and realise how each element is related to others. The nature and the shapes are blending with the immensity of the landscape. The works of the Orizzonte Project are of an ephemeral nature and they approach some characteristic of our existence as "being ephemeral", in fact, from the initial use of the natural elements present around, Lucia opted for the fabric, since It was installed on a surface for a short period of time during the day and then remove it without causing damage to the environment.
The line.
The choice of this pure and essential form comes from the desire to project in space, creating a continuation with nature. The look thus enters the interior of that colored band.
Blue: calm, freedom, immersion, fusion with the sky, sea of ​​emotions. Red: vitality, wrap.
The places where the project was done, are the result of several months of investigation. Lucia was studying the different elements of the environment (surface, depth, perspective, heights, etc ...) to identify a landscape where the sensation of silence, freedom and solitude are breathing. Her project is related to the space, the mind and meditation.
‘I leave an ephemeral sign, a gesture that will then transform the landscape for a moment, taking it to a new dimension. What remains as testimony of my artistic works are the photographs , the booklet and the videos that document the work of the organisation, the creation, the distance and the movement.’
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Amanda Selinder
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Born in 1990 in Småland, Sweden, Amanda Selinder is a fiber artist and natural dyer living and working in Stockholm/Göteborg. She received her education at HDK, the Academy of Design and Crafts in Göteborg and at the School of Visual Arts in New York.
During her residency in Lumbier, Amanda has been collecting pigments and mushrooms near the residence for natural dyeing. She has planned her residence as a period for color research. Phellodon Niger (Black tooth), Hydnellum Concrescence (Zoned tooth) and Tricholomopsis Decora (Stubbmusseron).
'These mushrooms are not edible, but, they are great to use as a natural dye. I've been experimenting using different kind of mordants and different kind of fabrics, to see how the mushroom dye react. It's an experimental process, where, I really want to understand and get to know this interesting mushrooms." With the point of departure in natural dyeing, I examine various types of fermentation processes, cultures of microorganism and the manner in which my body affects and participates with them, over time. What drives my work forward is a fascination and curiosity for the non-human bodies that the human bodies live in symbiosis with. How do we communicate with the creatures that form such a crucial part of us?
In my performances I’m questioning if our body really ends at the skin. Is my body just an extension of the bacterial culture? What happens if we change our perspective into a post-humanistic point of view where the boundaries between nature/culture, mind/body, human/animal fusions together? What happens if we stop thinking the world circulates around the human species and confesses the essential of other body’s existence?'
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