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Luisa Rabbia: Videos
Excerpt fromTravels with Isabella. Travel Scrapbooks 1883-2008, 2008. Still frames, 26'30", loop. Music Fa Ventilato. Edizion of 6+1 a.p.
Source material: Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Archives, Boston
Courtesy Galleria Giorgio Persano, Torino
During my residency at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in 2007, I was inspired by photographs Isabella Gardner collected and pasted into elaborate travel scrapbooks while traveling in China in 1883.
In Travels with Isabella. Travels-scrapobooks 1883-2008, I rearranged these archival photographs to create a video of an imaginary landscape, and a running panoramic view of my own journey through these photographs,
and through space and time.
The archival photographs have been animated with my own drawings, along with music and other images inspired by my residency.
The result is a fantastical narrative that is both contemporary and historical.