Between Memory and Experimentation: The Rabdomantic Archive of Giovanna Brogna/Sonnino

Cristina Costanzo associate professor of Contemporary Art History at the University of Palermo, a scholar of 19th-century visual arts, will present tomorrow,  Thursday, March 12 at 6 PM in Palermo (Feltrinelli Bookstore at Via Cavour 133) the volume she authored “The Double and the Eternal” a study on the archive of Giovanna Brogna/Sonnino, a director and visual artist from Catania.

Joining the author are Giovanna Brogna/Sonnino and Eleonora Lombardo.

Featuring a rich photographic apparatus, the book published by Carocci describes an artist with a broad cultural horizon “capable of experimenting – as stated on the back cover - with various media such as writing, photography, photo-textuality, moving images, visual poetry, collage, and installation”.

The volume identifies crucial themes in the artist's poetics and particularly describes her archiving process. Brogna/Sonnino engages “with expanded expressive modes subject to continuous experimental deviations, always connected to her personal experiences and her rambling gaze”.