NICOLE SALIMBENE
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UNFOLDING

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UNFOLDING, detail
“‘Field’ originates in the word ‘fold’. We are held in folds of earth, twilight, and dawn. Our bodies are full of folds, our brain, our lips, our eyes, the creases and overlaps are there, even if we don’t see them. These folds that time successively unwraps, a gift of revelation”.
                                                                                                                                                        -Sarah Robinson, Nesting: body, dwelling, mind

In the lost art of the letter, we lose the embodied gesture of unfolding something slowly. To stare and search, to wonder and wander across the fields either in maps or letters. To behold for a moment content that cannot be swiped away. The patience of waiting for a letter to arrive. The sharing of wisdom and presence germinating in the time and space where the possibility of connection is drawn apart and pulled together without immediacy. Perhaps it is nostalgia or metaphor or longing, but I want to hold and unfold and fold something. And then release it. As the poet John O’ Donuhue states, “I would love to live like a river flows, carried by the surprise of its own unfolding.” Or like the poet Rainer Maria Rilke, “I want to unfold. I don’t want to stay folded anywhere, because where I am folded, there I am a lie.” Unfolding is an invitation to reflect on what is slowly being revealed in the folds of your life.

In the interactive installation, you are invited to step into the space for an intimate look, and to sit at the ironing-board-transformed-desk, opening the envelopes placed inside a wooden box. Inside the envelopes, poems/quotes/images are intended to  provoke further examination of the connections between the ordinary and sublime objects and gestures presented within the installation, as well as, for the viewers to embody the metaphor of folding and unfolding and the relational poetics examined in this piece.
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Group Exhibition:
CAST / RECAST
February 1 - March 10, 2023
Gillespie Gallery

George Mason University School of Art
Art and Design Building, Suite 2050
4400 University Drive Fairfax, VA 22030

www.masonexhibitions.org
Upcoming Events:
CAST/RECAST Artist Reception and Grounding Ceremony
Feb 1, 2023
 4:00 PM – 6:00 PM

Love Letters to Nature with Nicole Salimbene
Feb 14, 2023
Time Slots:
10:30am-1:10pm, 4:30pm-5:15 pm, 6:30-8:00pm 

Cast/Recast fills Gillespie Gallery with installations, sculptures, altars, manifestos, performance documentation, paintings, photographs, wallpaper, a soundtrack, and a portal. Participating artists include: 
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Rahne Alexander, Laure Drogoul, Cheryl Edwards, Heloisa Escudero, Maggie Gourlay, Mira Hecht, Kay Hwang, Veronica Jackson, Jessica Kallista, Maria Karametou, Isabel Manalo, Ceci Cole McInturff, Meeting Ground (Susan Main and MJ Neuberger), Zia Palmer, Judith Pratt, Lisa Rosenstein, Nicole Salimbene, Asha Santee, Katherine Thompson, Jessica Valoris, and Naoko Wowsugi.

© 2022 Nicole Salimbene

  • Works
    • WE ARE WATER
    • ARTFORUM TAPESTRY SERIES
    • RECEIPT TAPESTRY SERIES
    • UNFOLDING
    • KNOWING YOUR WATER
    • MOVED BY WATER SERIES
    • AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF CONSUMPTION: FIVE SCROLLS
    • DIVINE FEMININE SERIES
    • MAKEUP SERIES: TREMBLING
    • SCAPULAR SERIES
    • MENDING
    • STUDIES IN INVASIVENESS
    • COMMUNITY PROJECTS
    • ARCHIVE >
      • STONE TO STONE
      • PROTEST RECEIPTS
      • FIGURES IN CEMENT
      • BOX SERIES
      • FACTORY SHRINE
  • ABOUT
    • STATEMENT
    • BIO
    • CV
  • PRESS
  • NEWS
  • WORKSHOPS
  • CONTACT