04. April

Assignment Title: Make an assemblage in 2 minutes.
Assignment Description:
Create an assemblage using items you have at home within just 2 minutes. Record a video of the entire process and give your piece a title.

Created by: Francesco Felletti
Responded by: Roberta Borroni, Yulin Huang, Hanya Elghamry, Natasha Brown, Francesco Felletti, Marine One

Natasha Brown - Banana goes to sleep

Francesco Felletti - Presepe

Marine One - Sugar Higher

Yulin Huang - The Best Souvenir from New Zealand

Roberta Borroni - North facing - it's never sunny in here but all I can think about is to sunbathe in front of my window

Hanya Elghamry - An assemblage of everything on my shelf

What challenged, excited, or surprised you while creating your work?

YH: After playing around with a couple of Items in my room, I had very limited time leftover to construct the so-called Assemblage. I quickly tried to make a very unstable ‘shrine’ for one of the ‘55 wonderful views’ promised in ‘the best souvenir from New Zealand’ playing card pack I had in my collection. I panicked, and she unabashedly toppled over after filming.

RB: Two minutes go incredibly fast (I may or may not have cheated by a few seconds)!

HE: I've been reflecting a lot on the idea of home, and thinking of how to take my practice further especially after seeing that alot of work is being done on the concept of belonging and home right now by alot of artists and curators. This shelf specifically describes that, from a broken framed picture of my parents and I, to the quraan, to lots of exhibition brochures and artists cards. I dont mean to make it sound more conceptual and deep than it is, but, this shelf describes what I am today. A Daughter, a curator, a believer, a girlfriend, a friend, a teacher and hopefully again an artist.

NB: This was my THIRD attempt at an assemblage. The first two I found I was trying a bit too hard to make something that looked good. I thought it would be nice to use a part of my home that was "permanent" like an appliance, rather than an object. I also wanted to make use of the function of an appliance and it seems so wonderful to be put to sleep with the gentle rock of a washing machine. Going to sleep and waking up again does seem like giving your brain a wash <3

FF: It was quite exciting to try assemblage as it is a practice I never completly understood. I spent most of the 2 minute figuring out how to place my magnet inside a vase...I felt stupid. Then the rest of the time was done quite in a rush, and I felt excited to make a messy job without thinking too much. Overall 7/10.

MO: There is a box of sweets in my kitchen that I usually don't eat from, since most of them were bought by Claire, my partner, and our tastes are a bit different when it comes to sweets. I made a tower out of biscuits, gummies, chocolate, and a candy within this two minutes. While I was making tower I discovered some sweets that I didn't even know we had in this box. Also in my mind, I was trying to be as fast as I could, but I look quite slow in the video...

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