L’Osservanza
L'OSSERVANZA, 1996
Fixed slide-projections on exterior building walls
Site-specific installation, Ex-Psychiatric Hospital, Imola, Italy
L'OSSERVANZA, 1996
Fixed slide-projections on exterior building walls
Site-specific installation, Ex-Psychiatric Hospital, Imola, Italy
L'OSSERVANZA, 1996
Fixed slide-projections on exterior building walls
Site-specific installation, Ex-Psychiatric Hospital, Imola, Italy
L'OSSERVANZA, 1996
Fixed slide-projections on exterior building walls
Site-specific installation, Ex-Psychiatric Hospital, Imola, Italy
L'OSSERVANZA, 1996
Fixed slide-projections on exterior building walls
Site-specific installation, Ex-Psychiatric Hospital, Imola, Italy
L'OSSERVANZA, 1996
Fixed slide-projections on exterior building walls
Site-specific installation, Ex-Psychiatric Hospital, Imola, Italy
L'OSSERVANZA, 1996
Fixed slide-projections on exterior building walls
Site-specific installation, Ex-Psychiatric Hospital, Imola, Italy
L'OSSERVANZA, 1996
Fixed slide-projections on exterior building walls
Site-specific installation, Ex-Psychiatric Hospital, Imola, Italy
L'OSSERVANZA, 1996
Fixed slide-projections on exterior building walls
Site-specific installation, Ex-Psychiatric Hospital, Imola, Italy
L'OSSERVANZA, 1996
Fixed slide-projections on exterior building walls
Site-specific installation, Ex-Psychiatric Hospital, Imola, Italy
ABOUT THIS WORK
Projected on the exterior walls of a former internment hospital for the mentally ill, Wolf’s L’Osservanza (The Observance), titled after the name of the sanatorium itself, consisted of slide images of patients formerly confined to the asylum, as well as phrases shared with the artist by current patients in the modernized therapeutic institution. A commissioned project by the hospital, Wolf lived within the institution for three days. While there, he established a verbal dialogue and relationship with the patients to understand their lives and points of view as inmates within a complex who were no longer secluded behind an impenetrable wall, but who’s everyday lives were still not integrated into the outside world. Sentences recorded from the patients and projected onto the buildings read:
Looking for a sincere friend
The sand castle
The forbidden city
It is sufficient to assume the likeness
The disease of the wind
Let yourself be taken by the wind
Rebecca Pristoop
L’OSSERVANZA, 1996
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Installazione site-specific, Ex Ospedale Psichiatrico, Imola
Proiettata sulle pareti esterne dell’ex ospedale psichiatrico, l’opera L’Osservanza, intitolata al nome del sanatorio, consiste in una serie d’immagini storiche di pazienti già rinchiusi nel manicomio e frasi condivise con l’artista dagli ospiti dell’attuale comunità terapeutica protetta. Su commissione dell’ospedale, Wolf ha vissuto all’interno di questo istituto per alcuni giorni. Durante la sua permanenza ha instaurato un dialogo e rapporto interpersonale con gli ospiti per conoscere le loro esperienze e pensieri all’interno del complesso. Benché non più isolati dietro a mura impenetrabili, le loro vite quotidiane non risultano integrate con le dinamiche del mondo esterno, come testimoniano alcune loro frasi riportate qui di seguito, proiettate sulle facciate degli edifici nei quali abitano:
La malattia del vento
Castello di sabbia
La città proibita
Cercasi amico sincero
Basta assumere sembianze
Lasciati portare dalla vita
Rebecca Pristoop
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