Emergency’s Paediatric Centre in Nyala, Photos Shown On Two Apple iMac Quad-Core i5s
2011
Installation, variable dimensions.
Materials: Two Apple iMac quad-core Intel Core i5s, double slideshow
Collection: Courtesy of the artist and ZERO..., Milan.
Grimaldi regularly collaborates with Emergency, an independent, neutral NGO that was founded in Italy in 1994 to offer free, high-quality medical and surgical assistance to the civilian victims of wars, landmines, and poverty. On several occasions, Grimaldi has proposed projects to public institutions and private collectors that were based on donating the funding involved in an art project towards supporting Emergency’s healthcare facilities. This activity then becomes the subject of photographic essays for display as slideshows in gallery spaces, documenting the patients being rehabilitated by Emergency, and exhibited on the newest model of Apple computer available at the time. These image-reportages, which portray their subjects very much in the high resolution of advertising media, are displayed as synchronised slideshows across sets of Macs, creating a contrast between the computers with their stylised images and the social reality of the geographic locations where the works begin. (NH)
