Florence Trust

Rossella Emanuele, studied Fine Art at Chelsea College of Art and Design. (BA, 2001- 2004), (MA, 2004-2005).

 

Rossella Emanuele started making sculpture in 1999; her previous career was within the performing arts. She trained as a dancer, and from 1983 to 1995 was performing with contemporary dance companies and in experimental theatre. Her dance and theatre training has informed her art-practise since the very beginning. Notions of movement, of event and a ‘performative’ element are strongly present in her earlier work.

 

Her most recent work focuses on the notion of event, which she explores through time-based ‘visual actions’ enacted by the material itself. She uses active, unpredictable materials, which are in continuous transformation and affected by changes in the environment. By using materials such as water, ice, ink and salt, she explores the relation between the ever-changing nature of life and the inner world of the subject.

 

Taking the form of traces of events, very evocative and with a sense of memory, Emanuele’s work transforms emotions into physical form shifting between material forms and experimentation with media.