Laura Pugno - Over Time
Laura Pugno - Over Time
video 4K (3 channels), colour, sound, 15’
2021
Over Time explores from new perspectives the relationship between human beings
and the natural environment through the lens of snow, a material both powerful
and vulnerable, which conditions climates, life systems and economies. The work
develops the snow investigation conducted by the artist in 2018 and developed in the
different languages of drawing, sculpture, photography, installation and in a cycle
of works on paper dedicated to Wilson Bentley, a photographer who at the end of
the nineteenth century was the first to capture snowflakes, turning into images the
fascination exerted by the uniqueness of these “tiny miracles of beauty” that rain
from the sky. A resource for mountain economies, ground for sporting enterprises,
source of whitewashed, but also sublime and tragic imaginaries, capable in the
form of ice to freeze life for millions of years and as water to be an essential source
for the survival of all living species. Snow is likely to disappear due to climate
change and to anthropogenic actions. Over Time explores, by updating them, the
reasons for our emotional bond and our need to live, study and recreate snow in the
Anthropocene era.
Curated by: Andrea Lerda
https://laurapugno.info/Over-Time
Created thanks to the support of the
Italian Council program (9th edition, 2020)
Carried out in collaboration with
MUSE – Science Museum, Trento
DISAFA, Department of Agricultural, Forestry
and Food Sciences of the Università degli Studi di Torino
Fondazione Zegna, Trivero Valdilana
Cittadellarte
Fondazione Pistoletto, Biella
AGIVERONA Cultural Association, Verona
Fondazione per l’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea CRT, Torino
Musée Gassendi / CAIRN Centre d’Art, Digne-les-Bains (France)
A Tale of a Tub, Rotterdam (Netherlands)
SÜDPOL, Lucerne (Switzerland)
Centre d’Art Contemporain, Geneva (Switzerland)
With the support of
Pro Helvetia Swiss art council
Volcke Aerosol Connection