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SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

2017

Every Room As a Pond, Arebyte Laser, London, UK

Mispercieve, Cape Town Art Fair, Cape Town, SA

The Independent, MAXXI, Rome, Italy

2016

DIRT, Art Licks Weekend, London, UK

One Hour Without Understanding, Bazaar Compatible, Shanghai, China

La Distanza effettiva non si lascia comprendere, Una Vetrina, Rome, Italy

Good Reasons Not to Understand One Another, Dino Morra Arte Contemporanea, Naples, Italy

2015

Future rhythms, Venice Biennale Collateral event, Sale Docks, Venice, Italy

We forgot the name of what we wanted to do, Solivagant*, NYC, USA

Future Rhythms, Venice Biennale Collateral Event, Sale Docks, Venice, Italy

Control and Ventriloquism: what you say goes, The Function, London, UK

Super Woofer, Matts Gallery, London, UK

Beyond (Becoming) , Pierogi Boiler, NYC, USA

Interstitial Zone, The Showroom, London, UK

Heckle, Bosse and Baum, London, UK

The Residency 2. Working Day, firstsite, Colchester, UK

Can You Pay My Bills 2, DeptfordX Festival, London, UK

2014

Can You Pay My Bills, Flat Time House, London, UK

Friktioner Festival, Uppsala City Museum, Uppsala, Sweden

The Residency, Kings College, London, UK

Jelly Ghosts, Arshake Banner special project, www.arshake.com

Exchange made Live, Walden Affairs, The Hague, The Netherlands

Organism, I.D. Town, Shenzhen, China

The Farringdon Factory, The Farringdon Factory, London, UK

2013

Learning from the Literati 4, OV Gallery, Shanghai, China

A restless misunderstanding needs to jiggle and baffle, Vask, Manila, The Philippines

Laowai - Antagonist/Allegorist, Bank, Shanghai, China

2012

What is it about the End of the World that makes it so appealing, V-Art Center, Shanghai, China

Premio Fabbri per l’arte Finalists, Villa Brandolini, Pieve di Soligo (Tv), Italy

The Future that was,  NASA/SMART Project Space, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Verticalita’ – Living in Lift, Museum of Palazzo Ducale, Genoa, Italy / Museum of Castel dell’Ovo, Naples, Italy

2011

Playtime, Verona Arte era, Verona, Italy / Zajia LAB, Beijing, China

SHAVE, I.U.A.V., Venice, ItalyNulla e’ piu’ tuo E’ inutile ridere E’ inutile piangere Nulla e’ mai tuo, Bottello Arte Contemporanea, Turin, Italy

The Yes Foundation, Tart Artspace, ‘s-Hertogenbosch, The NetherlandsI

nterventions, Space, Bratislava, Slovakia

Amarelarte, Bari, Italy

Comfortable Auction, Shanghai Gallery of Art, Shanghai, China

Affrontare il Rosso, Café Europe, Rome, Italy

2010

Learning from the Literati, OV Gallery, Shanghai, China

Flashbacks, of Cina, Factory 798, Beijing, China

2009

Chongqing Youth Art Biennale, Chongqing exhibition Center, Chongqing, China

Fictions, Bonington Gallery, Nottingham, UK

2008

Intrude: Art and Life 366, Shanghai Zendai MoMA, Shanghai, China

Coffee Machines and Tea Cups, of Cina, Factory 798, Beijing, China

Iceberg Enters Obelisk, Whitechapel Gallery, London, UK

2006

Futuremap, best of graduates, Davies St Gallery, London, UK

Self – Space, Air Video, Stoke-on-Trent, UK

EDUCATION

2003 - 2015, MA Fine Arts (Sculpture/Performance), Royal College of the Arts, London, UK 2003 - 2008, BA Fine Arts (First Class Honours), Central Saint Martins College of Arts and Design, London, UK 1998 - 2000, Illustration (DROPPED OUT), Ecole Saint Luc, Brussels, Belgium

RESIDENCIES

2017 Chisenhale Studio4, London, UK 2016 Swatch Art Peace Hotel, Shanghai, China 2015 B.O.C.S., Cosenza, Italy The Island Resignified, Lefkas, Greece 2013 I.D. Town, Shenzhen, China Lab-Yit, Caochangdi, Beijing, China

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To Define Something

Performance for camera / Remnants of Performance

Permanent ink markers on adhesive tape

40:39 mins.

71 x 86 cm.(frame)

2017

I give a lecture in front of a camera and possibly an audience. I define things by what they are not and note down key words and connections between them on a surface turned blackboard behind me. The lecture ends when I loop back to the first definition I have given. The lecture makes no sense.

#Girolamo Marri #definition #lecture #blackboard

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Neglected #1 (Give us back our boredom)

Mixed media on canvas

2 canvases each 15 x 15 cm

2016

#girolamo marri #boredom #painting #longing

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Untitled (A Game of Animals)

Mixed media on blackboard and wood, shelf

34 x 24 cm.

2016

#girolamo marri #painting #text #blackboard

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I take it as a postulate that humankind evolves above all through mistake, incomprehension and misunderstanding. In my practice I try to analyse, portray and influence reality, in light of such assumption.

I establish connections based on the very shortcomings of our means of communication. I investigate how discomfort can create awareness of the present. I try to bring attention to the fracture separating a rational and an experiential reading of a given situation.

Through a performative research, I combine the collection, production and alteration of objects, texts and spaces.  I set up talks that never begin, frantic group meditations, silent interviews where no questions are asked or answers given, I draw cognitive maps and write texts that are meant to be forever corrected or never understood, I assemble ephemeral installations, conduct late night radio shows, and trigger all sorts of disquieting interactions with audiences and passers-by.

#statement #girolamomarri #ideas

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One Hour Without Understanding Performance / installation 2 free standing white boards, permanent ink 2016

The performance took place in a wet market in Shanghai. For an hour I tried to list all things that I can’t understand. Two people tried to understand my rumbling and take notes, in both Chinese and English. The audience also struggled to understand my rumbling and later to read the notes. Out of all this exponential growth of non-understanding, came two beautiful objects, the whiteboards with their abstract scribblings.

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An article I wrote in 2015. A lighthearted and funny read

#Venice biennale #Girolamo Marri #randian

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Nothing Soothing for Half an Hour

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Recorded sound + AM/FM Radio, A4 paper, plant 30:00 mins. (extract 09:35 mins.) Sound engineering: Riccardo Amorese Installation: Lou-Atessa Marcellin 2016

I recorded myself while reading quotes from books and song lyrics that contained the word “Nothing”. I recorded three layers of voice and added sound effects, in order to achieve the effect of a late night, psychedelic, “soothing” radio show.

Headphones or a good sound system are highly recommended. And so are a joint and a glass of wine

#Girolamo Marri #Riccardo Amorese #Lou-atessa Marcellin #Performance #radio show #Nothing #Nothingness #Niente #Nada #Nulla

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Girolamo Marri Plays His Favourite Record

@ Super Woofer, Matt’s Gallery, 2015

I said I’d play my favourite record for the audience. I talked about subjective and objective, did some very bad tai chi, and never played any record.

#vynil #girolamomarri #superwoofer #taichi #performance #subjective #objective

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Good Reasons Not to Understand One Another

Mixed media installation Dimensions variable 2016

In Good Reasons Not to Understand One Another, the relation of power between speakers and listeners is represented by couples of reading stands and chairs,  each duo accompanied by other elements such as violently loud or barely audible voice recordings, glass sheets laying on the ground, electro-luminescent texts precariously pinned to the wall and floor, and colourful and tasteless infographics. All the works are surrounded by black packing tape, used as if a pencil, to temporarily frame and connect all elements into a single, unstable entity.

#Girolamo Marri #Installation #photography #communication #misinterpretation #misunderstanding #ideas #chairs #reading stands #alba Morassutti vitale

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Talk Deejaying

Performative talk About an hour 2016

I was asked by a collector to present my work to an audience at her place. I took the opportunity to test some talk deejaying. I presented my work in random order as I stumbled upon it on my hard drive, improvising a thread and talking about accessory subjects, such as my resemblance with actor Ted Danson. Good fun. For me at least

#Girolamo Marri #talk #presentation #performance #deejaying #structuring #converting #twisting #bollocking

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An Improvised Study on the Mechanics of Incomprehension

Mixed media on paper 205 x 155 cm (including frame) + wooden ladder 2016

#mind map #girolamo marri #incomprehension #communication #context content #listener #speaker #reading stand

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In a collector and friend's place, a print from a 2011 series called The Graft, done in collaboration with Daniele Mattioli

#girolamo Marri #Daniele Mattioli #the graft #photography #performance #Shanghai #gagliano Del capo

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Talk 19.05.15

Performative talk 15 mins 2015

@Pierogi boiler, NYC

#performance #GIrolamo Marri #talk #pierogi boiler

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The Singers

Performance Duration Variable 2014

The performers, the number of which may vary from a minimum of 4, are professional sign language interpreters. They walk leisurely around a given space, without making their presence remarkable in any way. They occasionally approach groups of people conversing and, without any introduction or explanation, they translate whatever is being said. If asked anything, they simply translate questions back. Just as seamlessly as they arrive, they leave their temporary audience after a few mnutes.

The signers intrude private conversations, but without adding or subtracting any content from them. In doing so they act as a mirror, on the one hand pushing people to forcibly confront themselves with what they are saying, and on the other making them aware of a different language/form of coomunication, that coexists wrldwide with the common local language, and yet runs parallel to it, detached and unnoticed except in very specific contexts.  

#sign language #girolamo marri #performance #private space

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Nine Gentle Ghosts

HD Video with sound 04.12 mins on a loop (Extrct 3.26 mins.) 2014

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Ordinanze sindacali in caso di decesso di porto Municipal ordinances in case of decease of a port

Documentation pictures of installation 5 Inkjet prints on ultra-smooth archival paper 5 editions of 30 x 20cm and 5 editions of 60 x 40 cm 2011

This installation was produced for an exhibition held in Bari, in southern Italy, in September 2011, featuring work specifically intended for the rundown old port area.

I commissioned to companies working for the city administration, a series of 5 street signs reminiscent of official ones, but displaying ambiguous injunctions, that identified both the old port and the city administration as living entities. 

I then installed the signs in spots of the port where they would attract public attention, such as the landing spot of boats during religious cerimonies, or between fishing boats

#Bari #Girolamo Marri #street signs #old port #obsolescence #entropy #art at sea #water