Abitual_mente - Personal exhibition of Julia Balbi - Sala Comunale d'Arte Piazza Unification of Italy, Trieste Italy 4 from 4 to 22 May 2007
The title has several meanings . The 'habit' which in turn refers to the root of "habit", which can be either one you wear, that surrounds and protects the body, such as that which concerns the behavior, the custom of certain gestures, the way of being in relationship to others and themselves. In any case, something you do or use so customary, repetitive, constituting the 'habitus vivendi. "And yet the habit here is bound to an abstract entity, the mind, which still governs the dress in two versions and in turn leads to the definition of mental habit, that is the custom and available to receive - or "dress" - certain types of thought, of preconceived. All this - in other words, the "inside" and "outside" , visibility and the reworking of mind, the double and the whole of which we are made - is condensed in the work of Julia Balbi. That in itself is a job, to say the least, curious that the fusion of photography and weaving, the picture-weaving in fact, that captures images at the same time dissolves so that they become the warp and weft, a network that collects and combines two passions, the imagination can easily be fixed and that of weaving learned the local art school. It brings "live" sound and flavor, "finds", which is still hypothetical clothing retrieved and altered by tragedies such as shipwrecks, classified in the shuffle after the event, with badge. The "fabric Photograph" became a witness in any case "status" existential, document experiences and experiences, memories and emotions that pierce the packaging of a dress, which bind to the body and soul so that it is sap, revealing, in knots of nylon - yet functional, symbolic and airy cloud of an aesthetic nature - the difficulties of which is littered with life but also the closures arising from "schemes" preconceptions. Not so the search expression pattern of Giuliana Balbi, but reflection, conducted in a highly original, on walks of life, self-analysis about how behavioral, psychological blocks and limits on the conditions, with the intent overrun.
The exhibition, in addition to clothes hangers, doth a series of images in the feminine, softened and twisted as usual, with a corollary of knots - then geography of disturbance of the soul - that sometimes tapes become more consistent . These cling to the story of young girls often dormant, putting a concrete visual evocation of daily life, a vibrant fusion of vision and broke the existing two-dimensional, resulting in growth of the intensity of expression. Maria Campitelli
