Visitors to the 63rd Faenza Prize exhibition were invited during the opening months to vote for their favorite work. “Golden Valley” (2022) by Olivia Barisano is the installation (video and ceramic) that won the Franco Fabbri Audience Award.
Once settled in Vallauris, Olivia Barisano explores its history and territory related to ceramics. With Golden Valley, she goes in search of this lost “gold,” collecting clay from an abandoned site. She models large pieces of clay and pots that resemble shopping bags, symbols of consumerism.
Revisiting a vanished craft, he revives ancestral gestures by comparing them with the transformations of our world.

In Oliva Barisan’s artistic pursuit, ceramics has progressively become her preferred medium of expression. At the core of her sculptural and performance work, Olivia Barisan explores identity, filiation and memory through a physical engagement in the repetition of ancestral gestures. She questions our relationship with the world and time by observing the wear and tear of everyday life, the transformation of matter through the imprint of touch. With ceramics, she abysses the action of time, confronting traditional knowledge with the contemporary world. This dialogue between past and present roots her to the soil and connects her to her roots, while evoking the fragility of memory in the face of oblivion. In a world torn by social, political and ecological upheaval, her work resonates as a reminder of our vital connection to the earth and the gestures that shape us.

 

Olivia Barisano, Golden Valley, 2022, earthenware, engobe, glaze, video
earthenware, engobe, glaze, video
cm 200 x 300 x 300

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