Martina Geccelli
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Suites -4047-wall panels.2001
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Suites - World Trade Center, New York 2000
One is seing vacant office spaces.
The tenants have left the location. The spaces are in a stage of in-between: moving out; leaving and restarting - the rebuilding and reorganization.The actual offices can not get precisely located. They are anonymous and inter-changeable.
Borders, limits, openings and objects - formal orders.
Emptiness, density, filled up, crowded - chaos.
The vacant space is still occupied; left items are corresponding with eachother.
I am dealing with the topography of the space. In preventing telling stories, or giving explanations, I am interested in the visible.
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Contens Cleaning Cupboard, 2001
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The two different series - 'Contens' and 'Old Appliances' are looking at the constellation of houshold utensils under certain conditions. 'Contens' is exhibiting those utensils normaly hidden in cupboards. They are presented on stage, lifted from their dark excistence. 'Old appliances' focuses on the broken - now useless- objects, here staged for the last time.
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Old Appliances- Hoover;Mouse. 2005
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Interior-Newbern-Books.2001
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Interior-C. ladies bedside. 2002
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Interiors
Since working with photography Geccelli is also working on interior photography. Photographing inside residential, as well as public buildings, she sometimes treats the found setting like a Still Life: the camera concentrates on details of the room, pointed towards the detail. Here she does not disturb the found arrangements. People are placing things, useful or decorative, in their every day routine. Traces of that routine are left like markings.
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The Villa D�rckheim in Weimar was designed by architect van de Velde at the beginning 20th. century. It was left unoccupied after the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. Having gone through a difficult history the building was last occupied by the STASI, East-Germany's secret service.
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Library - bucket.2007
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Geccelli looks at the empty spaces where noble materials from the original design meet the cheap style of the GDR. Between the lino floor and the mahogany shelves stands the present in form of a green plastic bucket. Carefully placed , the everyday object points towards potentially changeable constellations.
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