Isabella Nardon, born in Trento in 1992, studied at the Academy of Fine Arts Venice, at the Akademia Sztuk Pieknych in Warsaw and received her MA in Visual Art at the FMAV in Modena in 2019. Between 2020 and 2021 she moved to Berlin for an artist residency at ZK/U Zentrum fur Kunst und Urbanistik. She had her first solo-show, daBadA, in Laives-Bolzano at Galleria 29 curated by Nicolò Faccenda (Lasecondaluna). She recently graduated as a yoga teacher, the experience led to the creation of INVISTA, a body and visual experimentation project promoted by the Metronom art gallery (Modena). In 2021 together with Jacopo Noera she founded muah!, a studio specializing in art direction and contemporary image research.
Contact:
nardon.isabella@gmail.com
isabella@muah.studio
ABOUT
"You are walking down the road and stumble because of a root that is breaking the asphalt: boom! you are immediately dragged out of your thoughts and you find yourself back into the same place".
In that moment of suspension something happens, everything apparently stops, thoughts change course, like when an inhale has to change into an exhale.
In this suspended moment everything is in power; when the coin turns before falling and when Abraham raises his hand to the sky with the intention of sacrificing his son Isaac, all scenarios are open. Here you are free to immagine.
She would like to think of these kind of situations as deviations as they unexpectedly mutate the flux of our thinking. It's part of her practice to intervene in urban space by placing annotations which in some way can provoke a shift or a reflection by asking questions or playing around with the ordinary. We are used to go through so many spaces, physical and virtual, that in some way, it may seem strange to us thinking about the soil our feet are touching; stumbling brings us back to that feeling. This kind of experience helps us thinking of our body as a part of a bigger system: Who am I in my different surroundings/ in different spaces? "Where are my feet standing? What is my neighborhood and what is it telling me? Where does the sun rise and which part of the soil is it warming up?".
ZK/U, 2021
