Gianna Parisse. Brevemente Risplendiamo Sulla Terra

Heimat Gallery is pleased to present Gianna Parisse's solo exhibition On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous, curated by Nicoletta Provenzano.
The exhibition, inspired by Ocean Vuong's novel from which it takes its title, displays a core of large-format photographs and projected images belonging to the Mundus archive, a survey of places in Amatrice after the August 24, 2016 earthquake. In observing and classifying trees, stones and familiar everyday objects, the artist, through the use of a scanner, captures the atmospheric impression and returns a grasp of reality shrouded in an abyss of light, from which the traces of a memorial matter emerge a moment before they are lost in the changes of living.
Dazzled by a known universe resplendent in the fragility of existence, the subjects of Gianna Parisse's works bear witness to a presence hovering in the air, as deep as a shining mist. In the vegetable, mineral and object corporealities silhouetted in white, the artist recomposes fragments of what resists time and space, suspending them to comfort and restore their vulnerable and transient identity.
In the plant, mineral and object corporealities silhouetted in white, the artist recomposes fragments of what resists time and space, suspending them to comfort and reestablish their vulnerable and transient identity. The bare branches of an apple orchard, stones and ancient crockery compose a rhythmic three- step progression that seems to dilate earthly experience into an elusive, resplendent nuance, delivering it to a refounded interweaving of nature and humanity.
Lost in the glow, the sign-like footprints of nature's objects and elements become the last shattered splendors consigned to lightness, now condensing a cosmic matter, becoming limine between abyss and immensity, between open and opaque.
In the exhibition On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous Gianna Parisse captures instants of a world suffused with memories, changes and reversals, a universe of nature and familiar objects that lose their contours to survive as a desire for purity and an act of resistance.

Biography
GIANNA PARISSE
Artist, architect, PhD, for many years she devoted herself to architectural research, conceived as the relationship between art and architecture. More recently, she graduated in painting and specialized in graphic art and technology of paper materials at the Academy of Fine Arts in Rome. She has exhibited in Italy and abroad: Dresden, Germany; Seoul, Korea; New York, USA.