The Body of/at Work

The Body of/at Work, Elena Cologni, Piazza San Marco, Venice, 2021

 

The Body of/at Work series of situated interventions was premiered at resilient communities, Italian Pavilion at the 17th International Architecture Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia, on 5th June 2021 in conjunction with the exhibition Elena Cologni. Pratiche di cura, o del cur(v)are, curator Gabi Scardi May 17 – July 4, 2021, at Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa, Palazzetto Tito, Venice

This is part of an ongoing project including a series of public interventions (and relevant publications). These take place in different locations referring to the social history of places and architecture of women labour in relation to cloth, mostly in preindustrial times, when the body was central to labour.  These places include laundries and washhouses, and factories, but also public spaces where some of these works took place. The project looks at including: the concept of the threshold between public and private; the relationship with places of labour; the body as a measuring instrument.

The details of which can be found here https://elenacologni.com/projects/the-body-of-at-work/