polaroids

This work consists of a series of polaroid images, a short text and a site-specific installation. It was made at a 3-week residency at Cittadellarte in Italy. As artists in residence, we were asked to work 'in-between' a number of curated exhibitions and workshops. Faced with the situation of having to make work without the tools or space I was used to, I began to explore the role of art-making as a problem-solving strategy, and became interested in improvisation as a basic, everyday creative act. I borrowed a polaroid camera and began to document 'improvisations'. The text 'Improvising the Dictionary' consists of a compilation of other peoples' personal definitions of the word. The project culminated in a window installation, a homage to one of the collected improvisations, which I showed alongside the photos and the text.

Special Thanks to Michelangelo Pistoletto, Clementine Deliss, the staff at Cittadellarte, and the other a.i.r