Rosalind Nashashibi. La Visione di Carlo (Sacro e Profano)

Opening Wednesday, 14 September 2011, 6.30 PM
from 15 September to 5 November 2011

Wednesday, 14 September Peep-Hole presents La Visione di Carlo (Sacro e Profano) [Carlo's Vision, Sacred and Profane], the first institutional solo exhibition in Italy by Rosalind Nashashibi, developed in collaboration with Nomas Foundation, Rome.

The exhibition takes the form of a dyptich divided in two venues subtitled respectively Sacred and Profane and Body Habits.
Common element and leading thread of the two exhibitions is the new film Carlo's Vision commissioned by Nomas Foudation and Peep-Hole and produced by the Stefano and Raffaella Sciarretta Collection.
 
Carlo’s Vision (2011) is a 16mm film based on an episode in the unfinished novel Petrolio by Pier Paolo Pasolini. Petrolio gives us a picture of the Italian contemporary world, a crucial contribution to the understanding of what happened in Italy between the Sixties and the Seventies. The artist moves from the vision of the main character, Carlo. Nashashibi’s intention is not to make the vision as Pasolini described it into a film but rather to shift the vision in today's context and let it clash with reality. The structure, the main characters and props will be taken from the novel, but the rest will be left to reality and observation. Petrolio was set at the end of the Sixties, Nashashibi’s film sets the vision on Via di Tor Pignattara this summer. Carlo perceives reality in a different intensity of time, light and colour to that experienced by the rest of the street. Nashashibi’s film takes a ritual and a vision from outside of time, and drops it into the most ordinary part of the day, creating a friction where the simultaneous realities rub against one another.

At Peep-Hole, La Visione di Carlo (Sacro e Profano) also features Shelter for a New Youth (2011), a mixed-media installation in…