Site specific, positively perspectival, intervention on Viale C. Battisti, Biella by resident Veronika Tzekova:
Space NRGZer#4 Intervention on urban furniture, Biella, Italy 2010
Space NRGZer#4, Biella, Italy, was conceived after an encounter with the awkwardly placed benches on C. Battisiti Street in Biella, Italy. The benches are alongside the pavement facing the facades of the shop windows. Most of the enterprises are closed and signs ‘for rent’ placed on the shop-fronts.
The intervention is in the form of a string installation, which extends the shape of the benches and connects them by using mohair thread, produced in a nearby factory.
(photo by Veronika Tzekova)
The resulting soft mohair benches are not usable urban furniture, but rather a comment on the awkward placement that actually deprives these benches of their intended use and function as places of rest and social communication.
The use of the locally produced wool thread also monuments the social aspect of the economic decline of the textile industry in the region, as it is no longer something the local population is able to rely or ‘lean on’.
(photo by Veronika Tzekova)
For more of Veronika’s work and the 13 other UNIDEE residents, come along to Cittadellarte on Sat 9 October, for our Open Studio day.
