Miriam Poletti

Statement

My artistic practice is interdisciplinary and includes photography, textile sculpture, video and creative writing. My work develops as an exploration of the sense of touch, tenderness, fragility and the symbiotic threads that bind us, both individually and collectively. The work process itself serves as an embodied methodology to create new models of social interaction: through collaborations and workshops, my aim is to make the work the result of a collective effort encouraging a sense of shared ownership.

My main subject is the body, investigated in its slightest alterations. I explore its soft, weak, porous nature, easily moulded or even bruised by the proximity of others. The public is invited to interact physically and viscerally with the works, squeezing or gently touching them, leaving their own temporary imprint on them, drinking and consuming them, wearing them, making them their own. The skin becomes a site of possibility where the nature of the encounter is established through the performative process of touching.

GlogauAIR Project

The project presented at GlogauAIR aims to explore, through the medium of textiles, the importance of community engagement in the creation of a collective body.

The exhibition presents an installation consisting of soft sculptures depicting photographic images of skin details. These sculptures act as tactile representations and invite visitors to freely explore and interact with them.

The collaborative aspect extends to the artists in residence, who are invited to participate in sewing sessions with the artist, to actively contribute at the creation of the installation. This working approach encourages the creation of connections, and challenges the traditional idea of artwork authorship. The body is understood as a collective entity that we can construct, deconstruct and reconstruct together.

Installation.

CV Summary

• Miriam Poletti holds a master’s degree in Fine Arts from Brera Academy in Milan and has attended courses at the University of Utrecht and EA School of Art in Murcia.
• They have been living and working in Berlin since 2019.
• Their work has been exhibited in galleries and cultural spaces nationally and internationally such as Myymälä2 (Helsinki), Kogo Gallery (Estonia), SomoS (Berlin) Careof (Milan), MO.CO. La Panacée (Montpellier), ACMI Australian Centre for the Moving Image (Melbourne).
• In 2023, they received a residency stipend from the Goethe-Institut.
• Their poems and fictional works have been published in collaboration with the independent publishing houses Freigeist Verlag, SOFT EIS Presse and SHIFT BOOKS.

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