Maya Quattropani

The solo show of Maya Quattropiani (1983) has a project devoted to sleep, at which time the individual left the unconscious, can reveal to a careful observer, aspects are difficult to grasp during wakefulness.
The artist has documented, starting with 2011, the sleep of more than forty different people, each of which has "watched" a whole night, photographing and recording the sounds they emit. The starting point are the studies according to which the posture of the sleeper is an indicator of their personality, while the noises you can discover particular aspects symptomatic.
In the show, the recordings (Polisonnofonia) and Polaroid (Nocturnal Portraits) make up a single installation, in which the observation of the sleeping bodies will be accompanied by the rhythm of the overlap of breaths, verses, hiss, ronfati, which seem to become a musical symphony.
In the course of the exhibition is also visible Sleep Collective, a project developed in March 2014 in the form of workshops took place over 24 hours, concentrated on the ritual gestures that punctuate intimate moments of the day for everyone. A group of Fine Art students, aged between 16 and 26 years old, has been selected to assist in the building of a shared drafted into alphabetic characters (6 typewritten texts) and visual languages ??(4 designs mixed media on paper, 4 rayograms) completing the experience by sharing sleep a night to turn it into a collective action in the Gallery.
The goal is to create a bridge connection between waking consciousness and dream state, identifying the unlimited streams of consciousness that are held in the mind of each and offering some fun activities of the surrealist exquisite corpse as a method of representation of the unconscious based on randomness and on chorus.

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