Programming
Andrea Cavagnaro
All love is powerful
The intervention aims to relate the exterior of the building to the Mission's premises. With the help of the latter, and through the use of various materials, the intervention will transform, even envelop, the exterior façade of the building, while proposing a new reading of the interior of the premises.
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From May 5 to 23, Andrea Cavagnaro will intervene with the Mile-End Community Mission upon the building that houses it and on its premises. Using various materials from a kitsch aesthetic, she will open breaches in daily life and its power struggles, by proposing a transformation of the building’s facade and a new reading of its interior space.
Some of Cavagnaro’s projects call attention to the fragmentation of public space in Latin American cities like São Paulo. A public space is not public, but it’s not private either. It is ambiguous; it is both things at the same time. A public space always belongs to someone and it could also be shared with neighbours and pedestrians concurrently.
I always think about these small, inconsequential gestures that change the conventional stability, they are substantially helpful. They bring art to private life in a nameless and silent way: the audience doesn’t know what is happening is ‘art’. They simultaneously reveal – in a deeper, quite subversive manner – things the system tries to hide: everything could be different, nothing is in jeopardy, nothing wrong happens. It’s just different and intimate from the extremely boring everyday life. The possibility of altering the most private domestic space becomes clear; these gestures cross-examine and evaluate the world.
At the Mile End Community Misssion at 99, Bernard Street West, Montreal
Creation from May 5 to 23, 2008. end of project on June 30, 2008
Opening at the Mission on Friday May 23 from 4-8PM (non-perishable food items accepted as donations)
Reception at the parc sans nom on Friday May 23 from 8-11PM
Andrea Cavagnaro
invites you to a community meal (pot-luck)
on Sunday June 1st, starting at 5PM at the park with no name
In collaboration with Mile End community Mission and Augusta Capital
Thanks to : Joanne Racette, Marie-Claire Genest, Linda Shinder, Frédéric Chabot, Pascaline Knight, Paméla Morin, Stéphane, Audrey, Bartek Borowinski, tio Marco, Nadège Forget, Anne Boucard, Antelme, Jean-Philippe Luckhurst-Cartier, Freddy, Roslyn Macgregor, Lori Olson, Militsa Adamu, Connie Olson, Douglas Scholes, Valérie Perron, Julie Châteauvert, Jean-Pierre Caissie.
After studies in industrial design, Andrea Cavagnaro (Argentina) has turned to public interventions that consist of interference or that adds on existing structures and urban furniture. The artist has intervened in the physical settings of a bakery and in its actual operations, in order to celebrate the Bakers Union anarchist past in the 19th century; she has created multiple public interventions on the frontage of houses and buildings; she has improvised urban furniture in places where the Buenos Aires State deemed unnecessary. andreacavagnaro.blogspot.com.
