REMINDER
2020
28 archival pigment prints, 11x17 inches each
Reminder is a work produced during the COVID quarantine in New York City in April and May 2020.
Commissioned by Magazzino Italian Art Foundation, as part of Homemade project that culminated in an in-person exhibition curated by Vittorio Calabrese with Chiara Mannarino at Magazzino in Cold Spring, NY.
“Before Homemade, Maria D. Rapicavoli’s practice was principally concerned with exposing the external realities of political and social structures. In these unprecedented times, introspection, solitude, and meditation on changes in everyday life have begun to inform her approach. Rapicavoli now sees her interior world, both mental and physical, in a new light. Using her camera inside her apartment for the first time, she notices sunbeams that enter her bedroom every afternoon and becomes infatuated with small neighborhood dramas, like the broken glass of a store window. Rapicavoli notes that while space has shrunk, time has expanded. In an effort to understand new rhythms of time in quarantine, she divided her reflections into chapters, which she continued writing throughout the duration of the project.” Text by Chiara Mannarino
Installation view – photo by Alexa Hoyer
Installation view – photo by MDR
