WALL ACTION  - Exhibition of posters by Teresa Sdralevich
May 7-11 2009 – from 6 pm to 8,30 pm
Locali Ex Fabbrica Serono - Pigneto street 22, Rome

Bringing into focus, in a flash, the system pollution degree being catapulted out from the system itself, passing from a dark cluttered with rubbish room – gold and ash, true and false joined together indistinctly – to a shining and significant spatial order – from apnea to mountain air clarity, from anaesthesia to the obstructed senses awakening… Running into Teresa Sdralevich’s posters can be definitely regenerating. Like perforating the perceptive chaos that clouds our minds… crossing inertia webs and reaching the affichisme most radiant sense, old art here forgotten: a poster in the street like simple, as well as unimaginable, direct democracy exercise, sacrosanct subjective repossession of the urban space by the single citizen, defence of that symbolic place which is critical and common action, what is under constant risk of being taken away from us.
Sdralevich works in synergy with several clients (political and no profit associations, ong, public and private organizations), but sometimes also on her own, («I keep reserving myself a private space, linked to the pure pleasure of having an idea, realizing the poster soon, printing it by myself in serigraphy, post it up in the street and distribute it during a demonstration»). She points  her bow towards the unsolved lumps of contemporaneity, to deepen children, women, workers and migrants rights, international politics lies, the always latent traps in official democratic societies, control and addiction like invisible thresholds that we continously cross.
Her touch is exact, limpid («I like working on a single essential idea»). Anomalous communicative synthesis which is anything but poor thought, its radical concentration and distillation, sharp interpenetration of artwork and headline, graphics and drowing, as well as ironic and biting spark able to spread open the most coriaceous perceptive orders as well.
But we also need to stake a considerable dose of courage, because “exposing” ourselves to the vision of these works is like measuring, by contrast, on the basis of the freedom which pervades them, the abyss of the expressive constraint which gags us, the captivity state which afflicts this country.
That’s why Sdralevich’s glance can be somewhere else and inside at the same time. If, in fact, we talk about origins, she is from Italy, è italiana, but fourteen years ago, at the time of her entry at the Graphic Arts school of the Belgian capital, she has chosen Brussels, a kind of no man’s land, a space of infinite possibilities, as life and professional action place.  With Italy, however, she has never stopped making up a thick web of ties till imagining and realizing Posterama, 2003, brilliant contamination and love act towards the two crucial countries of her life. At that time Sdralevich selects and gathers all over Italy posters which announce cultural events in this country, and post them up, sometimes by herself, in Brussels, generating an estranging crisis route of settled perceptions, oniric and exciting bridge between Belgium and Italy.
Of course, you can’t say that her sagacious and untiring aptitude for freedom is a researched skill here with us: «Till you don’t have experience that deep and substantial changes are possible, […], it’s very difficult that man would throw himself into creating [them]», wrote Danilo Dolci, daring poet of reality and of concrete revolutions. And maybe it’s just this sane Sdralevich’s partecipatory skill, acuminate awareness of her own power of impressing things, which is dread, as it could be contagious. Inside and outside the posters boundaries. In and Out of paper.

Teresa Sdralevich, è nata a Milano nel 1969 e ha studiato Scienze Politiche a Bologna.  Dal 1995 ha deciso di vivere a Bruxelles, dove ha frequentato l’École de Recherche Grafique e quindi l’École Supérieure des Arts Visuels de la Chambre. È autrice di manifesti politici, sociali e culturali (molti dei quali raccolti in Out of paper con prefazione di Giovanni Anceschi), e come affichiste ha partecipato a numerose manifestazioni internazionali: Mons (1998 e 2001), Chaumont e Toyama (2000), Varsavia (2002, 2004) e Trnava (2003). È anche disegnatrice per riviste e periodici come «Internazionale», «La Chronique», rivista de La Ligue de Droits de l’Homme e  «New York Times Book Review», nonché autrice e illustratrice di libri per ragazzi.

Teresa Sdralevich, was born in Milan in 1969. She studied Political Sciences in Bologna. Since 1995 she has decide to live in Brussels where she attended the École de Recherche Grafique and then the École Supérieure des Arts Visuels de la Chambre. She makes  political, cultural and social posters (many of which are gathered in Out of paper, with a preface by Giovanni Anceschi), and as affichiste she has taken part to many international events such as Mons (1998 e 2001), Chaumont e Toyama (2000), Varsavia (2002, 2004) e Trnava (2003). She is also a designer for periodicals and reviews like  «Internazionale», «La Chronique», review of La Ligue de Droits de l’Homme and  «New York Times Book Review», as well as children books author and illustrator.