20/05/2025
This is the last week to visit 𝘊𝘰𝘯𝘵𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘍𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘨𝘶𝘦 at Emalin, 118 ½ Shoreditch High Street. The gallery is open from Wednesdays to Saturdays, 11am to 6pm.
To be contained is to be formed in relation to an edge: a threshold that marks what is held in and what is kept out. But containment rarely holds – it fatigues, often slowly; not always through spectacle, but through accumulation.
The group exhibition includes Alessandra Spranzi’s Ogni mattina (2006), where a woman waves from her balcony each morning to an unseen recipient. The gesture, held within the frame and returned to each day, appears unchanged but slowly accrues difference, a steady insistence that reflects Spranzi’s ongoing interest in how repetition can both preserve and unsettle the rituals of daily life. Containment here is temporal: an accumulation of moments that don’t resolve. The artist’s wider practice often involves rephotographing, reprinting, and rearranging found images until they become something else, not clarified, but estranged from their use. In Ogni mattina, this approach takes the form of a quiet, sustained attention to a solitary gesture — one that marks the distance between subjects, even as it insists on connection.
📷:
Alessandra Spranzi
Ogni mattina, 2006
single-channel video, colour, sound
duration: 3:03 min
