Soil and Water
My motivation to create relies on long-term commitment and slow research, on direct observation and careful activation of the context. My contextual approach to the habitat, conveyed by participating in the emotional life of the ecosystem, allows an interactive connection with the living, in the perspective of an evolutionary transformation. I deploy those forces irradiating from the imagination, from the sensorial and mental identification with the forms of nature, and with its rhizomatic and chaotic processes, because I pay attention to the network of exchanges present in the environment, and its populations. Sometimes following, sometimes anticipating theoretical aspects, I have started projects focused on the relationship between persons and places in which cultural value takes on the connotations of social and political action, and the inclusion of non-human agency. Relational aesthetics has been a key to my practice. I interpret it by trans-materialising and de-materialising my artwork, shifting attention to the process and its inter-relations. In the light of contributing to form historical precedents impacting the role of the artist as relational catalyst, I am devoted to instigating life-long collective learning through art.
Egle Oddo (IT/FI)
Egle Oddo is an artist dedicated to long-term and context based projects. Her work focuses on linear and non-linear narration as an art form. Interested in operational realism, meant as the presentation of the functional sphere in an aesthetic arrangement and its inter-relations, she combines photography, moving image, installation, sculpture, environmental art, and experimental live art. In her pieces industrial production morphs towards delicate handcraft, life forms appear and emerge out of sculptures and objects, film photography appropriate digital images, selected trash mix with fashion, precious edible minerals and ancestral recipes are served as part of ritual meals. Her work is present at international biennials, museums and relevant institutions, as well as cutting edge and independent alternative spaces and events, to mention few: Manifesta12, Zilberman gallery, 3me Biennale Internationale de Casablanca, Finnish National Museum of Photography, 54th International Exhibition Venice Biennale, Triennial Agrikultura, MACRO Museum of Contemporary Art Rome, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Kunsthalle Exnergasse Vienna, Kunsthalle Bratislava, Transmediale, Pace Digital gallery New York, Loop Barcelona. Her work is part of private and public collections, among them the Archive of MAXXI Museum of 21st Century Art (Rome), and the collection of the Ministry of Italian Culture via Italian Council.
Her research is available to read in the following publications: Flash Art 68, 7-9/2023, Czech & Slovak Edition, cover and article; Performative Habitats, eds. Egle Oddo & Lori Adragna, Postmedia Books, Milano; Antennae, The Journal of Nature in Visual Culture, #53 Vegetal Entanglements, ed. Giovanni Aloi, New York; RUUKKU, #16 Working with the Vegetal, eds. Annette Arlander, Jerry Mättä, Malin Lobell; CrossSections, ed. Basak Senova, published by De Gruyter & Edition Angewandte, Vienna; SEI DECLINAZIONI DEL PAESAGGIO #2, with Paola Alborghetti, Stefano Cagol, Francesca Conchieri, Mauro Cossu, Eckehard Fuchs, Gruppo sinestetico, Egle Oddo, CSP Centro Studi sul Paesaggio, Biblioteca Queriniana, Brescia, IT.
She lives and works between Finland and Italy.