Naufus Ramirez-Figueroa
WRITTEN SORROWS
Photographer: Anna Scott
Exploring the loneliness of the urban landscape and the invisibility of acts and gestures of sorrow in public spaces, I invited the public to stuff my shirt with rose stems. Like the use of roses in Gina Pane’s Azione Sentimentale, I exalted not the beauty of roses, but the pain they can inflict. Pane spoke of pain as a means of discourse, creating a moral community between those who have suffered and those who have witnessed this suffering.
Curated by Anna Scott,
David Yonge, and
Brenda Clenuik
“Spike: Performance Series”
Neutral Ground, Regina