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A WINDOW TO EUROPE: THROUGH ART & LITERATURE
November 28 - December 14, 2021: Emily Fussner + Tiziano Fratus
Plain Sight DC and the EU National Institutes of Culture in Washington, DC present A Window to Europe: Through Literature and Art, a series of short exhibitions featuring eleven visual artists from the Washington, DC region creating work in response to eleven books by European writers, as part of the 2021 Europe Readr project. In this exhibition, Emily Fussner creates work in response to Italian writer Tiziano Fratus’s book Every Tree is a Poet. This exhibition is presented in partnership with EUNIC DC, the EU Delegation to the United States, and the Embassy of Italy in the United States, and the Italian Cultural Institute of Washington.
Inspired by writer Tiziano Fratus’s Every Tree is a Poet—an exploration of the deep human bond with nature, originally published in Italian—Emily Fussner captures and refracts the dappled light of an Italian forest floor through large-scale prints of organic matter punctuated with fragile, transparent sculptures that cast shadows of Fratus’ poetic writing. Fussner channels her playful interest in the ephemeral nature of shadows by carving out of this urban setting an immersive space that, like the ground under a dense canopy of trees, changes from one moment to the next.
"The distance between..."
Quote from Every Tree is a Poet by Tiziano Fratus, laser-cut in acrylic, with life-scale laser print of Italian forest floor and print of tree shadows. Installed at PlainSight DC Georgia Avenue location from November 28 - December 14, 2021.
"The distance between..."
Quote from Every Tree is a Poet by Tiziano Fratus, laser-cut in acrylic, with life-scale laser print of Italian forest floor and print of tree shadows. Installed at PlainSight DC Georgia Avenue location from November 28 - December 14, 2021.