Memories From The Future:
Exploring The Fortress As A Woman
One of the gates of the fortress bears the name of the Tsar Nicolas. All the crowned heads of the XIXth century passed through the Nicolas Gate because that road was once the “main highway” from Europe to the Russian Empire and vice-versa, from the North to Europe. The artist choose to place inside her second site-specific installation, Resonances, a sensitive artwork that deals with fragility and resonance (but not only referring to sound). To hear the sound of the porcelain objects, people cannot be alone inside the gate. They have to be two: one person is handling the object at one side of the arch and the other listens to its amplification; a body imprint of a human ear is set to suggest the listening experience site.
The core of the two site specific art installations belonging to Memories From The Future: Exploring The Fortress As A Woman has nothing to do with the deep admiration and the glorification of the war but testifies of a feminine sensitive approach of such an environment where the extreme fragility of porcelain simply reminds the fragility of the human being.
© Ana Maria Asan, Resonances (Memories From The Future: Exploring The Fortress As A Woman), Nicolas Gate, Fortress of Daugavpils
Porcelain, stoneware, stainless steel, light
Collection of Mark Rothko Art Centre and Daugavpils Fortress Culture & Information Centre, Latvia
