Anna-Lucie Feracci

(Dis)appearance
The oscillation in my current practice between structural organisation and mind mapping systems will be the subject of my research for the Island project.

I have decided to reconstruct the laboratory of Alfred Piri Niri, the eternal stranger, to allow visitors to unfold the story of his disappearance through proofs of his prior existence - culminating in an interview with the explorer made by the BBC in 1952.

I intend this work to be less about the mystification that surrounds travel literature than about the transient quality of the voyage. The journey is a metaphor for a thinking process linked to constant transgressions of
knowledge borders; so that the mind travels in mental landscapes and traces "lines of escape".

The endangered island and its endemic bird, between macrocosm and microcosm, recall the possible extinction of our world.


(Dis)appearance : Events
Sat 12 and Sun 13 May
Interactive installation from 10am to 6pm:
-Yann Morris talks to Alfred Piri Niri, the explorer : an interview by the BBC in 1952
-Looking for Alfred Piri Niri : a lost diary


Anna-Lucie Feracci is an installation artist with a research based practice. Her work has a performative aspect involving sound, text ...

She has exhibited in France (at The artists squat a building site in Marseilles) and in London (at The pregnant man in Saatchi Saatchi, at the Edward Passmore Museum, at the Candide Art Gallery, at the Millinery Works Gallery and the Quicksilver Gallery... ). Her recent work has included other artists: musician Chris Bangs from Shadow orchestra, artist curator Elodie Silberstein from Eat art party, photographer Flip Wibbly Jelly and actor David Richter.

She has studied art history and archaeology and has completed an MA Philosophy of art at the Sorbonne in Paris and a BA Fine art at the Middlesex school of arts in London.

annaferacci@hotmail.com