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    Floor-based sculptural installation. On the floor are two sculptures whose main feature are warm yellow plastic sandbags with a woven texture. These sandbags are installed in multiple layers and folds. The sculpture on the left has a long plank of pine wood going through the sandbags, other materials and objects emerge out of the layers of sandbags, such as geologic-looking bronze forms, sulphur crystals, pine needles, beeswax casts of the walls of Sicilian sulphur mine, and black volcanic sand. On the sculpture on the right hand side, the folds and curls of the sandbags are stronger. Emerging and peeking out of these folds are more beeswax casts of the sulphur mine walls, rivers of black volcanic sand, carob pods, a found snail shell stuffed with sulphur crystals, an iron pick axe used to mine raw sulphur, and a bronze cast of a bread, that lies on one edge of sandbag, as if it were lifting up the layers of sandbags, like turning the page of a book.
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    N'arubarru lu suli, lu suli - They steal from us the sun, the sun, Natalya Marconini Falconer, 2024, woven polypropylene sandbags, beeswax wall casts of Gessolungo sulphur mine, iron pick axe, bronze bread cast, bronze offcuts, pine, pine needles, sulphur crystals, volcanic sand, carob pods, found snail shell, silicone and turmeric snail shell. Dimensions variable.

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    Sculpture comprising Fiat 500 exhaust bracket, Fiat 500 tail light cover, aluminium fennel husk on grey floor.
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    Recalcitrant Sigh, Natalya Marconini Falconer, 2024, Fiat 500 exhaust bracket, Fiat 500 tail light cover, aluminium fennel husk, 26 x 15 x 22 cm

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    Detail of gold coloured sculpture with a bumble bee on top of fragments of crystal.
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    Smelt Song: For Thee a Bee I Do Become (detail), Natalya Marconini Falconer, 2024, cellophane, aluminium, sulphur crystals, found bee. Dimensions variable

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    Installation of sculpture made from woven polypropylene sandbags, jesmonite cast of Gessolungo sulphur mine, Fiat 500 hub cabs, wing mirror, wire spring and clasp, thread, fennel seeds on top..
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    Folding In Industrial Time (detail), Natalya Marconini Falconer, 2024, woven polypropylene sandbags, jesmonite cast of Gessolungo sulphur mine, Fiat 500 hub cabs, wing mirror, wire spring and clasp, thread, fennel seeds. Dimensions variable.

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    Sculpture hung on white wall comprising an aluminium fennel husk with an eroded hook coming out of it.
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    An Axis Between Toil And Desire, Natalya Marconini Falconer, 2024, aluminium fennel husk, water eroded hook, 9 x 21 x 9.5 cm

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Natalya Marconini Falconer – MA/MFA

My practice emerges from gaps in familial and regional memories of southern Italy. Moving across sculpture, installation, writing and sound, I create layered narratives that attempt to hold multiple entangled lived experiences of Calabria and Sicily. My work often begins from the fallout of material from the cycles of industrialisation, labour practices, geophysical events, and migration. In tracing what has been left behind, whether forcibly or (un-)intentionally, the work centres itself around material's 'timekeeping' potential: its ability to hold memory and sensation when the body falters to do so.