A construction site takes over an urban area that was ruined after the bombings of World War II. It alters matter, deforms the ground, raises fences. Volumes and paths are redesigned. The history of the place is erased, giving way to an imaginary archaeology, made of sweat and fatigue. A flow of natural and distorted tones, based on the free association between images and sounds, accompanies the passing of time on the screen.
F.R.A.C. Corsica Collection (France)

CANTIERE AT FRAC CORSICA, 2018

FRAC Corsica presents three video works by Simonetta Fadda, including the installation Cantiere in a new form. (…)

Cantiere 1992/2015 covers the life course of a pharaonic construction and redevelopment site in the historic centre of Genoa. Simonetta Fadda saw and recorded its evolution from her window. Years of shooting and the precision of the edit recreate its conditions: the heat, the work, the interruptions due to the weather, with the longest one caused by the discovery of the ruins of a Roman theatre, finally recovered. And the day- to-day of the workers, with the disproportion between their small silhouettes and the gigantism of the yard evoking the construction of the pyramids. Their agility, their ability, their efforts, their foolish risks, their resistance, and the moments of rest of these young people... we are faced with the spectacle of life and work. A self-made epic dimension. Time is at work. It is not like the curious observation occurring in floral or animal documentaries, where the opening of a corolla or the gestation of a batrachian egg is precipitated.

With Simonetta Fadda we perceive the time that is represented. It is more real than that of continuity. It transforms and acts profoundly, almost invisibly.

Anne Alessandri, 2018from the catalogue published for La condition humaine, 2018-2019 FRAC Corsica – Fond Régional d’Art Contemporain de la Corse