Francesca Bogani Amadori

At the Saari Residence, I will work on Vibrations Between, a project that continues my ongoing research on how bodies and places shape one another. Focusing on the entanglements between human and non-human bodies and between organic and inorganic matter, I will approach the landscape as a resonant field in which the forces that constitute the environment are not always visible but are deeply felt. Moving non-linearly between experience, thought, and material experimentation, the project aims to trace and attune to the negotiations, tensions, and frictions of the surrounding land, noticing its cadences, silences, textures, and interruptions, and examining how movements, sounds, textures, and memories emerge in relation to the environment.

During the two months, I will conduct listening walks, engage in site-responsive actions, performative interventions, and field recordings. These explorations will inform drawings, sculptural assemblages, action-based scores, video works, and soundscapes later developed in the studio. The project is iterative, involving the layering and reconfiguring of elements, emphasizing experimentation and reiteration as a way to document encounters with the landscape through various modes of attention.

I think of Saari as an opportunity to situate myself in a non-urban environment and explore relational dynamics beyond the structures and systems of the city, where I can test, rehearse, and reflect on alternative, non-hierarchical ways of producing work with a place rather than imposing interpretation onto the landscape. My aim is to develop and cultivate a practice that is open, unrestricted, and welcoming of other modes of being and forms of being present.

Francesca Bogani Amadori is an interdisciplinary artist and artistic researcher based in Helsinki. Their process-based practice is rooted in embodied methods such as walking, active listening, and sensorial mapping. They work across sculpture, video, sound, photography, installations, sensory walks, and writing. Bogani Amadori holds an MA in New Media with a minor in Visual Cultures, Curating, and Contemporary Art from Aalto University, and a BFA with specialization in Sculpture from the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú.