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alavatelli@ucsd.edu
Biography:
Anna Chiaretta Lavatelli works in film, video, installation and performance. She began her career in Buffalo, New York where he could be seen at venues all over western New York and beyond. More recently she has worked out of Brooklyn, New York where he showed internationally with Jutro Filmu festival in Warsaw, Open Video Projects in Rome, Videolab in Portugual, and with Perpetual Art Machine where she was featured with NYC Scope 2008. She now works out of San Diego, California.
Research Interests:
ARTIST STATEMENT
Lavatelli works in sculptural installation, performance, film and video to examine the portrayal of women, femininity, and expectations in cinema— how the cinema has fragmented realities and perceived female identity, specifically her own. She is interested in using object-based installation in addition to the moving image to suspend the construct, the female star in the very unreality of cinema, in order to foreground the moments which evince objectification.
Her work therefore is a gathering of cinematic fragments of herself, but by extension also the gathering up of the entire category of femininity, which continues to suffer from the codifying of the image in popular culture. She finds instability in women using sex and sexiness for empowerment, there is a conflict as women continue to become sex objects despite their “owning it” on the screen, in art, and in the streets.
“I am searching for the moment of transition” (the cut) “where when wearing red lipstick” (close-up) “while walking down the street I suddenly” (freeze frame) “become an object for viewing” (the gaze), “and is this a changeable reality?”
www.annachiaretta.com
Selected Shows:
2009 17 Days, University of Virginia, VA; 17 Days, CEPA Gallery, Buffalo, NY; LAGOS III, Videolab, Algarve, Portugal
2008 Scope ArtFair NYC, [PAM] Artist at Large, New York, NY; You talkin’ to me?, Gato Vadio, Oporto, Portugal; 17 Days, Richmond Center, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI
2007 Artists and Models, Hallwalls Contemporary Art Center, Buffalo, NY; Open Video Projects, Roma, Italia; [PAM] Artist at Large, Scope ArtFair NYC, New York, NY; Salon v2 Travel Stories, Bar Matchless, Brooklyn, NY
2006 US Super 8 Film & Digital Video Festival, Rutgers Film Co-op, New Brunswick, NJ; VIDEO-RAMA, Colgate University, Hamilton, NY
2005 The Super Intense Decision Show with the Real Dream Cabaret, Buffalo Infringement Festival, Buffalo, NY; Jutro Filmu, Luna Theater, Future of Film Festival, Warsaw, Poland; Local Artists' Residency Show, Squeaky Wheel, Buffalo, NY; Resolutions 04, Hallwalls & Soundlab, Buffalo, NY
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