Not all cleaning is false, by Alessandra Pozzuoli March 18 - April 30th, 2022
Gallery Hours March 23 - April 30: The gallery will be open Wednesdays from 12:30-4:30pm
Not all cleaning is false is a solo exhibition by interdisciplinary artist Alessandra Pozzuoli, featuring work made in response to her experiences mourning her maternal grandmother. Through video, performance, sculpture, and site-specific drawings, Pozzuoli explores how embodied rituals use somatic engagement to counter impermanence, navigate grief, and restore memories. Viewers are invited to consider how rituals of touch and cleaning allow us to lean into intuition, communicate without words, and remain connected to those who are gone. Not all cleaning is false is available to view at Whippersnapper Gallery and online.
清潔並非都虛幻 | 亞歷山德拉·波佐利
【清潔並非都虛幻】是跨媒介藝術家亞歷山德拉·波佐利 (Alessandra Pozzuoli) 的個展，展出的作品是她回應哀悼外祖母的經歷所創作的。
通過視頻、表演、雕塑和場域特定的繪畫，波佐利探索了體現化的儀式如何利用體感參與來與無常對立、駕馭悲傷和恢復記憶。
作品邀請觀眾思考涉及觸摸和清潔的儀式如何讓我們偏重直覺，不用言語進行交流，並與已離世的人保持聯繫。 【清潔並非都虛幻】正在年輕有為藝術空間 (Whippersnapper Gallery) 和線上展出。
Public Programming
Saturday March 26, 2022:
Join Alessandra Pozzuoli on Saturday March 26th in person at the gallery from 2 - 4pm for a site activation as part of the exhibition Not all cleaning is false! Folks are invited to watch the artist create a drawing of her grandmother’s cappatoi (or "housecoat") onto the front facing window of the gallery, while meditating on maintaining connection to loved ones through rituals of touch and sensory engagement with cherished objects. This to-scale drawing will remain on the gallery window until the last day of the exhibit, when it will be washed away.
"Each time memories of a loved one are recalled, parts of them diminish: the touch of their hand, the smell of their hair, the sound of their voice. As strange as it may seem, through the soothing repetitive actions of washing, the familiar scent of Felce Azzurra and the weight of the soap in my hands, I can safely visit the spirit and memories of my grandmother's life and death."
-Alessandra Pozzuoli
Alessandra Pozzuoli is an emerging interdisciplinary artist. Through drawing, sculpture, and performance Pozzuoli explores how sacred meaning is communicated through gesture, objects, and narrative. Inspired by the material languages of generations of Italian immigrant women, her practice views cleaning as a foundational act of labor with both destructive and restorative potential. Her work highlights women’s labor as caretakers and keepers of cultural knowledge within the context of devotion, family, and mourning.
Pozzuoli is a graduate of Rhode Island School of Design and folds a BFA in Painting with a minor in Social Studies, History and Philosophy. She has exhibited her work in Tkaronto/Toronto and internationally. In 2021, she was Artist-Researcher-in Residence at the Art Gallery of Ontario. Her artwork and writing have been published by The Capilano Review, Hamam Magazine, and Mélange Creative Arts Journal. Pozzuoli currently lives and works on the traditional territory of the Huron-Wendat, Haudenosaunee, the Anishinabek Nations, and the Mississaugas of the Credit First Nation- otherwise known as King, Ontario.
