Jasmine Pignatelli's Collective Earth Cube at Sponge Pergola
Italian-Canadian artist and urbanist Jasmine Pignatelli (born 1968 in Toronto) presents a new work at Sponge Pergola, a home gallery. The piece consists of a cryptic metal cube containing soil collected from eleven artists around the world. Each artist gathered a handful of local earth and sent it to Pignatelli, who mixed them together and placed the blend inside the cube, engraving the coordinates of each origin on its surface. A video documents each artist's act of collection, contributing to a collective, non-didactic work. The project, described as promising and expandable, evokes Borges' Aleph by concentrating the universe in a single point.
Key facts
- Jasmine Pignatelli is an Italian-Canadian artist and urbanist born in 1968 in Toronto.
- The work is exhibited at Sponge Pergola, a home gallery.
- The piece is a metal cube containing soil from eleven artists worldwide.
- Each artist sent a handful of local earth to Pignatelli.
- Pignatelli mixed the soils and placed them in the cube.
- Coordinates of each soil origin are engraved on the cube.
- A video documents the collection process by each artist.
- The project is described as promising and can grow.
Entities
Artists
- Jasmine Pignatelli
Institutions
- Sponge Pergola
- Artribune
Locations
- Toronto
- Canada