DAAD scholarship in Berlin Kreuzberg : artist Rossella Biscotti shows the happiness of the trench News

In close-UPS and detail views of an archaeological excavation on submerged site of an early settlement, one sees young people from all over the world when you dig, Sift, Clean, sort and Document, listen to the sounds and conversations of their work. They form a lively community, and the study of earlier settlements and forms of society. Picture and sound run just a little in sync with the world of civilization with that of the current excavation teams.

The Italian artist Rossella Biscotti has your Video and audio installation "The City", with which it began three years ago, in Berlin. Your time as a DAAD scholarship holder is almost over. To Basel and Istanbul is its elaborate work is now on view at the daadgalerie. It is not a romantic, but a forensic view, the 1978-born artist has documented the excavations in Çatalhöyük, near present-day Konya in Turkey. 9000 years ago, the Neolithic settlement was built, it is now regarded as one of the first urban centers in the world. Under the leadership of the social anthropologist Ian Hodder explores this world heritage site, especially the socio-economic development of egalitarian societies. The flat hierarchies and the interdisciplinary exchange of the excavation team, the Biscotti fit heard during her two stays in 2015 and 2016.

uses multi-layered Assembly method

her interest is in the relationship between history and the present with a view to the socio-political question of how human communities form and dissolve again. You couldn't have guessed that you would experience both a height - as well as the involuntary end point of the excavation. During the spectacular discovery of a female marble figure, which was intact and in fine elaboration promoted to days, is to be regarded as unique, was the site of a coup in Turkey in 2016 for the urgent closure of the excavation. In the Film, the team meeting is to see in which the excavation Director, the termination of the Work from the safety orders of reasons. Then the lights go out, literally, for a Moment, darkness and silence, only the last measures for the backup to be taken. Once again the view with a 360-degree pan of the surrounding countryside rambles. Thus, the movie ends.

in the South of Italy-born and raised artist uses complex Assembly procedures, in order to link individual stories with social and historical questions. The anarchist movement in Italy, the fascism of Mussolini and the terrorism of the red brigades, as well as justice and penal issues, which is a Biscotti again and again to the relationship between the state and society.

Biscotti was already at the documenta and the Biennale in Venice

Complicated research, participatory team work and oral interviews are a part of your craft stuff in performative, installative and sculptural Work. Her keen interest in historical, political, and social issues dates back to her youth, when she committed with a passion for social and political issues. At the Academy in Naples, where she worked first of all with costume and stage design, she moved finally to the visual arts, they promised themselves greater freedom. But it was only with the move in 2004 to Rotterdam Biscotti came up with a contemporary art in touch, which allowed a connection between their artistic and political concerns. Their Work has been widely awarded and at international exhibitions such as the documenta in 2012, and the Biennale in Venice 2013gezeigt, and yet, Biscotti is always the question of whether they should engage more directly.

In her art she prefers, however, stories that appeal to the viewer and draw attention, rather than grievances directly to denounce. So convincing and eloquent Biscotti white to talk about their work, it is clear that at the end of the pictorial research Material obtained for themselves must speak. With "The City" succeeds in the quiet and haunting way.

Berlin was an inspiring experience

biscotti's functioning can be seen as a mixture of artistic and social work. This is particularly evident in your contribution for the Venice Biennale in 2013, an eight-month dream Workshop with the inmates of the women's prison was preceded on the island of Giudecca in Venice. In a protected space, a group of inmates met twice a week with the artist, their dreams to share.

only the recorded dreams But they were not able to leave the prison, but also the self-produced compost, from which the artist created an architectural sculpture for the Biennale. The Pride with which the inmates were granted a visit to the exhibition to your cooperation have referred to, is evidence of the power of their art.

The year in Berlin was in many ways an inspiring experience for Rossella Biscotti. In particular, the exhibition space Savvy Contemporary in Berlin-Wedding, which describes itself as "the Laboratory of Form-Ideas", with its broad-based program and its post-colonial perspective for you is of paramount importance. Like you'd keep a suitcase in Berlin, but first, the journey continues to Indonesia, where the next project is already waiting.

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