Domus is a research residency focusing on the Mediterranean. Founded by Romina De Novellis (Artistic Director) and Mauro Bordin (Technical Director), with the support of Pauline Rossignol (Assistant Director) and Mariacristina Lattarulo (Production Manager), the residency welcomes artists, curators and researchers from the Mediterranean region every year. This year, the DOMUS residence was due to host curators, artists, journalists and researchers to develop a cross-disciplinary exploration of the social, political and anthropological dynamics in the Mediterranean.
Due to the global health situation, the residency programme will take place both online and, as far as possible, in person, transforming the Galatina residency into a hypertextual museological device, drawing on the classical iconography of the Asàrotos oìkos (the unswept room)
Pauline Rossignol
The project draws on a personal archive limited to family and friends. Pauline Rossignol reworks this archive through the practice of drawing, transforming the drawings themselves into a series of sketches of moving images that explore intimacy and gesturality in the artist’s relationship with her subjects. The moving image reveals emotional and psychological depths, creating a sense of pathos.
The drawings are executed on tracing paper and cut out in such a way as to convey a sense of fragility through the process. Filmed and photographed using projected light, they create positive and negative line qualities with varying degrees of sharpness and blurriness. These shifting qualities can be interpreted as metaphors for memories.
Mkhammes, by Mouna Jemal Siala
Confined to her home in Tunis, together with her husband and their triplets, the Tunisian artist Mouna Jemal Siala has created a series of short videos exploring the repetition of gesture, the cyclical nature of time, and infinite time within a limited space.
Distressed by the lockdown, the artist used her camera to capture moments from her daily life, to convey her perception of time and her sense of boredom, drawing inspiration from the reactions of the elderly members of her family.
The filmed gestures are subsequently edited in an endless, repetitive manner, creating geometric shapes and patterns.
