Waterchildren soapchildren/The making of a baby

Waterchildren soapchildren / The making of a baby -Liquidlife recalling place

Genere: sculptures, video , installation photo, drawings.

Artist: Alessandra Cianelli © 2005 -2009

Description: This work arise from the ideas of the neverending liquid ,fragile,vanishing life of the unborn children in both sense of abortion and foetus:
Waterchildren: “children of water”are, foetus, abortion, planctonic submarine life and in a widest perspective every potential being.
Soapchildren: Soap is the material that i use to MAKE little children figures, part of of the installation project and main subjects in the two videoart pieces.
During my investigations i discovered that the unborn children are worshipped in Japan in a temple lying on a pond .
Every year, at a peculiar time, thousand of women use to go there to recall them. Bathing in the water they connect themselves to their lost children: (WIKIPEDIA) Mizuko kuyo (水子供養 Mizuko kuyō "memorial service to appease an aborted foetus") is a Japanese ceremony for those who have had a miscarriage, stillbirth, or abortion. This practice has become particularly visible since the 1970s with the creation of shrines devoted solely to this ritual. Reasons for the performance of these rites can include parental grief, desire to comfort the soul of the fetus, or even fear of retribution from the vengeful spirit (…).
In my view those children are not never born; but forever about to be born. It’s only a dimensional mistake.
In a biological and evolutive perspective they are fixed in an eternal present. The seewater, the submarine environment is the very ancestral PLACENTA:“She” will look forever after them, preserving them as seeds , preserving their eternal potenziality.

Part of the project that has been realized: soapchildren sculptures boxes ,vacuum packed soapchildren ,drawings,pictures, three videoart works;
Previous venues (video works):
-Waterchildren soapchildren – liquidlife recalling place – format 4:3';duration:04'16,master: DV ,2005
Lounge art Naplesl, july 2005 Magmart |video under volcano CAM Casoria Contemporary Art Museum Naples Italy, GenomART;
Kaletra contemporanea , march 2007 Capalbio(Gr)Italy april 2007; Ohnekole, nobudget film festival ,Vienna (Austria) july 2007;
-The making of a baby-format 16:9; duration:variable, master: HD ,2008;
Double track sinchronyzed video installation, one monitor 24” one projection1,20x 2,00 m;
Perfect stranger in Orsara jazz festivalcurated by) curated by Viviana Checchia, Orsara Di Puglia (FG)Italy -july 2008.
Making a baby-video performance live music Pasquale Innarella, Bisaccia (AV) Italy,december 2008

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