{"id":5089,"date":"2023-10-03T15:19:58","date_gmt":"2023-10-03T13:19:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fondazionearnaldopomodoro.it\/?p=5089"},"modified":"2023-10-03T15:19:58","modified_gmt":"2023-10-03T13:19:58","slug":"project-room-10-sophia-al-maria-mirror-cookie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fondazionearnaldopomodoro.it\/en\/project-room-10-sophia-al-maria-mirror-cookie\/","title":{"rendered":"Project Room #10 | Sophia Al-Maria. Mirror Cookie"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Project Room #10<\/p>\n

Sophia Al-Maria
\nMirror Cookie<\/strong><\/em><\/h4>\n

curated by Clo\u00e9 Perrone
\nMarch 13 - May 31, 2019
\nFondazione Arnaldo Pomodoro, Via Vigevano 9, Milano<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n\t<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

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\n On March 13<\/strong>, a new cycle of Project Room<\/em> at the Fondazione Arnaldo Pomodoro<\/strong> opens, curated for 2019<\/strong> by guest curator Clo\u00e9 Perrone<\/strong>, who \n <\/span>has selected three young international artists<\/strong>, Sophia Al-Maria, Caroline Mesquita, and Rebecca Ackroyd<\/strong>, artists who use sculpture within a multidisciplinary practice, thus expanding the very definition of it. Sculpture, not treated as a final result but as a process, becomes in their work a tool to create environments where visitors are compelled to engage with projects addressing socio-cultural phenomena such as misogyny, apocalypse, and national identity.\n<\/span><\/p>\n

For the first event, the Qatari-American artist Sophia Al-Maria<\/strong> (1983, Tacoma, USA) brings to the Foundation Mirror Cookie<\/em><\/strong> (2018), an installation composed of a video \u2013 co-produced by Project Native Informant, London, and Anna Lena Films \u2013 projected onto a screen resting on a boudoir<\/em>, immersed in a room surrounded by mirrors.<\/p>\n

A fan of actress Bai Ling<\/strong>'s blog since the early 2000s, Al-Maria was intrigued by a recurring theme in Bai\u2019s posts: cookie<\/em>. Sophia long thought that cookie was a person, perhaps a secret lover. In reality, Bai was writing affirmations of love and positivity addressed to herself. The installation Mirror Cookie<\/em><\/strong> collects a series of Bai\u2019s cookies<\/em>, reorganized into a disjointed monologue that recalls the \u201cmirror technique,\u201d a practice of boosting self-esteem. A passionate improvisation delivered to the camera, as if the \u201cfourth wall\u201d to break was one\u2019s own reflection.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n\t<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\n\t\t\t<\/div> \n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div> \n<\/div><\/div>\r\n\t\t

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