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With a Relative Uncertainty
by Giacomo Raffaelli
2014, 7’45’’
Original Format: Full HD
Presented at Lo Schermo dell’arte Film Festival 2014
With a Relative Uncertainty investigates the research currently developed by a team of scientists at the National Physical Laboratory (UK) attempting to redefine the kilogram prototype. The work explores the yearning for exactitude and universal measurement through the abstract quality of objects that are nevertheless handcrafted.
Giacomo Raffaelli (Italia, 1988). Italian artist currently based in London, where he has studied Fine Art Photography at Camberwell College of Arts, UAL. Through video, photography and performance, as well as lectures and text, his practice operates an examination of forms of measuring, and the aesthetic character of devices used in scientific research.
Since 2012 his works have been exhibited, screened and performed internationally, in venues including: Mart – Museo di Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto (IT), South London Gallery (UK), Camberwell Space (UK), “untitled”BCN (ESP) and L.E.S. – Local Experimental Society, Almaty (KZ).
Art institutions supporting his work through artist-in-residence programs include: Centrale Fies (IT), Little Constellation (IT), Viafarini DOCVA (IT), Hotel Pro Forma (DK). In 2013 and 2014 he was awarded the CCW Artist Moving Image Film Fund.
Since 2012 his works have been exhibited, screened and performed internationally, in venues including: Mart – Museo di Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto (IT), South London Gallery (UK), Camberwell Space (UK), “untitled”BCN (ESP) and L.E.S. – Local Experimental Society, Almaty (KZ).
Art institutions supporting his work through artist-in-residence programs include: Centrale Fies (IT), Little Constellation (IT), Viafarini DOCVA (IT), Hotel Pro Forma (DK). In 2013 and 2014 he was awarded the CCW Artist Moving Image Film Fund.