258 Viviana Rossi-Caffell Cardinale

Viviana Rossi-Caffell

Through an eclectic practice that incorporates kinetic sculpture, assemblage and installation, my work investigates aspects relating to the human being, translating my focus on organic dynamics, such as attraction, exclusion, friction, assimilation and the play of forces, in a game of weights that is a constant redefinition of balance.

Coming from a background including human sciences, performance and martial arts, attracted by the principles of balance, I began making mobiles starting from metal sheets, gradually integrating assemblage of different materials and found objects, allowing them to become hybrid sculpture. Over the years, the mobiles have gained weight and begun to ground themselves, turning into stabiles.

My pieces evoke the playful action of a performer or a musician, and their awareness of the present time: here, now. They remind us of the pivotal point between chaos and control, the tension between freedom and structure, destruction and order. The viewer is invited to look through a fictitious distorting mirror and recognise, in the sculptures, creatures fluctuating between apparent stillness and motion, purpose and vaguery, questioning their direction, playing with the common denominator of gravity.

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