Laura F Gibellini

Laura F Gibellini - Repository 10

Technique: Blown glass

Artist Biography: Laura F. Gibellini Madrid, 1978 --- Laura F. Gibellini She has exhibited at Matadero, Madrid; Centro de Cultura Contemporánea (CCCB), Barcelona; Künstlerhaus Glogauer Contemporary Culture Center (CCCB), Barcelona; Künstlerhaus Glogauer, Berlin; Capella de Sant Roc de Sant Roc, Tarragona; Museo de Los Sures, New York; Accademia di Belle Arti, Rome; International Studio Curator, Rome; International Studio Curator, New York. Belle Arti, Rome; International Studio Curatorial Program (ISCP), New York; AC Institute, New York; AC Institute, New York; International Studio Curatorial Program (ISCP), New Institute, New York; AC Institute, New York; Centro de Arte Joven, Madrid; Boston Center for the Arts, Boston; The Gabarron Foundation, New York; C Mass MoCA, North Adams; Santa Monica Art Center, Barcelona; UCCA, Beijing; Artist Space, New York; Center for Contemporary Arts, Santa Fe and La Casa Encendida, Madrid, among others. Laura F. Gibellini's artistic practice is of a processual and diagrammatic nature and is mainly formalized through drawing, site-specific through drawing, site specific installations, video, the creation of objects or writing. The consideration of expanded drawing, as well as the abandonment of the frontal, bounded and two-dimensional representation of traditional drawing in favor of immersive projects. of traditional drawing in favor of immersive and "environmental" projects are at the base of his work. the basis of his work. It begins by considering the notion of place and asking how we relate to the world, and then moves on to inquire into what kind of to inquire about what kind of conventions we use to represent it and for what purpose -which leads him from the intimacy of the from the intimacy of the domestic sphere to the territory and the environment. His most recent work investigates those elements that are at the limits of the visible, at the limits of the representable, and therefore, at the limits of the representable. limits of the representable and therefore in the limits of what can be thought. In particular, he focuses on that which lacks stable form and yet is basic to life (such as air, water, light, weather or atmospheric conditions). weather or atmospheric conditions in particular places) and considers how the difficulties of representation affect our understanding of the world. of representation affect our understanding of the world, since what remains unrepresentable is not recognizable, and therefore cannot be recognized. can not be recognized, and therefore thought about. Gibellini's work explores the gaps of representation and the possibilities of thinking the unthinkable. the possibilities of thinking the unthinkable.