Cologne – “Nobody’s Room”, an exhibition-performance by Silvia Giambrone

“Nobody’s Room” is the title of the exhibition-performance by Silvia Giambrone that will open on Thursday, 19 May, at 7 p.m. at the Italian Institute of Culture (IIC) in Cologne. The Sicilian artist defines the exhibition “a concert for solo voices that proposes domestic survival performance strategies”. The text of the performance is an adaptation of “Street Signs Scattered on the Ground” (“Indications routières éparpillées par terre”) by Bosnian artist and playwright Nedzard Maksumic, originally written to give indications on how to survive a war. Silvia Giambrone recites her monologue articulating as if in a confession while Davide Enia, Dalila Cozzolino and Andrea Di Palma say their lines in the background. They are all in “nobody’s room”, talking over each other, with each one of them enunciating their own existential recipes. Each one does it in a personal way, at his or her own rhythm, acting out his or her obsessions with candour and personal quirks. The artist works with several art galleries and has staged solo and collective shows in Italy, the United States, Poland, Lithuania, Germany and Austria. In 2013 she was awarded the Main Prize of the Kaunas Biennial; in 2014 she won the Collectors for Celeste Prize at the ArtVerona Show and the Francesco Fabbri Prize, and a special mention at the Bim Prize in Pieve di Soligo. “Nobody’s Room” – organised in partnership with the creArte Studio of Oderzo (Treviso) – will run until 6 June.