Artist Post #3: Moira Ricci

Autoritratto - “20.12.53 - 10.08.04”, 2004-2009
Lambda Print, Aluminium
Courtesy l’artista; Galleria Alessandro De March, Milano
© Moira Ricci

Da nonna - “20.12.53 - 10.08.04”, 2004-2009
Lambda Print, Aluminium
Courtesy l’artista; Galleria Alessandro De March, Milano
© Moira Ricci

Mamma in cucina - “20.12.53 - 10.08.04”, 2004-2009
Lambda Print, Aluminium
Courtesy l’artista; Galleria Alessandro De March, Milano
© Moira Ricci

Mamma e Zia Carolina - “20.12.53 - 10.08.04”, 2004-2009
Lambda Print, Aluminium
Courtesy l’artista; Galleria Alessandro De March, Milano
© Moira Ricci

Moira Ricci, a young Italian artist born in 1977 Orbetello Italy, Ricci graduated from the Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera in Milan (2004). She won a residency, Location One, and lived in New York in 2007.

“She looks at reality in an attempt to overcome its spatiotemporal dimension by meeting her mother virtually in various moments of her life before her sudden death. Digital image manipulation serves the artist to eliminate temporal distance and use the photographs of her “family chronicles” to consider her mother’s past and her own present and origins at the same time.”

-CCCS Strozzina

“Yes, all of my work is autobiographic because my life is the only thing that i truly know and that I want to share and analyse.”

-Ricci, interviewed by Gulia Simi

When I first heard about Moira Ricci's work I felt like someone had opened my own brain. She has created many different works and even though many of her works show up in varying media there is a lot of the same ideas in all of it. The past. Her memory of her passed mother. Her memory of her childhood home. Her memories of being told scary stories when she was little. Every project is fueled by her memory of her life. When I first saw “20.12.53 - 10.08.04” , which is the work that she made after her mother died suddenly, I felt like I was seeing work that I want to make. Or that in some ways I have made. Ideas that she was thinking I could understand and live. In “20.12.53 - 10.08.04” Ricci inserts herself into old photographs of her mother, in a time that she couldn't be there with her. She does this to maybe warn her about how she will die. Or to understand what her mother was like in a time that Ricci herself was not even alive. The way that Ricci addresses time and memory is something that I want also to translate into my work.

Also, having a common thread in all the work I've done is something of interest to me. Artists are interested in many things. I feel that artists that work on similar themes but in different medias and processes are really delving into something more scientific. It is a process that needs to be explored. Art is trying something new to see if it works, stays afloat. Science is in its own, much more controlled way, about experimenting with new ideas to create theories and laws. As artists, we are creating manifestos, ideas that we know to be true. We build these rules based on making several works of art based on similar ideas. These issues for me are: Family (like Ricci), History (like Ricci), and memories (like Ricci). I think I should start to study the fourth dimension again.

LINKS:

Artist Website:http://www.alessandrodemarch.it/index.php?&zone=5&idartista=159&azione=immagini

Gallery:http://www.alessandrodemarch.it/index.php?&zone=10

Interview: http://www.digicult.it/digimag/article.asp?id=1737

Photos from "Manipulating Reality"

"MANIPULATING REALITY." Strozzina. Web. 20 Sept. 2010.http://www.strozzina.org/manipulatingreality/e_ricci.php#top.

Simi, Giulia. "Absence/presence. (im)possible Images by Moira Ricci - Giulia Simi." Digicult - Digital Art, Digital Culture, New Media Art. Mar. 2010. Web. 20 Sept. 2010.http://www.digicult.it/digimag/article.asp?id=1737.