Micol Assaël
11 Sep - 08 Nov 2009
MICOL ASSAËL
11 September – 8 November 2009
Based on a fascination with scientific theories and physical principles such as earthing, gravity or electromagnetism, Micol Assaël often amplifies physical phenomena in her site-specific environments and interventions. Her sparsely furnished installations run the gamut of sensorial perceptions, allowing unusual experiences. In correlation with invisible elementary forces and an unhinged causality, the effects of industrial apparatuses relating directly to the body often provoke the psychological tension of an unspecific threat and feelings of uncertainty and vulnerability. In this way, Micol Assaël’s minimal arrangements refer to the potential horrors of technology, while at the same time, by dint of their specific materiality, theatricality and site-specificity, re-exploring the paradigms of Minimal Art, Conceptual Art and Arte Povera at the interfaces between science, technology, art and poetry.
Micol Assaël, born in Rome in 1979, lives and works in Rome and Moscow.
11 September – 8 November 2009
Based on a fascination with scientific theories and physical principles such as earthing, gravity or electromagnetism, Micol Assaël often amplifies physical phenomena in her site-specific environments and interventions. Her sparsely furnished installations run the gamut of sensorial perceptions, allowing unusual experiences. In correlation with invisible elementary forces and an unhinged causality, the effects of industrial apparatuses relating directly to the body often provoke the psychological tension of an unspecific threat and feelings of uncertainty and vulnerability. In this way, Micol Assaël’s minimal arrangements refer to the potential horrors of technology, while at the same time, by dint of their specific materiality, theatricality and site-specificity, re-exploring the paradigms of Minimal Art, Conceptual Art and Arte Povera at the interfaces between science, technology, art and poetry.
Micol Assaël, born in Rome in 1979, lives and works in Rome and Moscow.