Art With You
collective works of art
collective works of art
Projects aimed at using art to express social distress, carried out with socially vulnerable people who suffer from alcohol addiction, drug abuse or mental fragility, and with female victims of abuse and violence. Individual and collective works for public spaces, in collaboration with the National Health Authority and other public and private entities, as well as therapeutic communities.
[…] Hypertexts of personal, concealed stories. Harsh events and yet, at the same time, stories of reconstruction and rebirth, of hope and beauty through art. These are the sculptures created by some of the guests of the therapeutic community Fragole Celesti, coordinated by artist Paola Risoli. “Fantastical Houses by Fantastic Women.” […] The exhibition is the beating heart of a wider project, the conclusion of an intense artistic workshop.
Olga Gambari, La Repubblica, 9 marzo 2017
6 case fantastiche (scultura, fotografia, video) a cura di Paola Risoli, Palazzo Barolo, Torino, 2017.
CAMBIA MENTI, 2016 - Installation view Movicentro Ivrea
CAMBIA MENTI, 2016 - Installation view Movicentro Ivrea
CAMBIA MENTI, 2016 - Work in progress
CAMBIA MENTI, 2016 - Work in progress
CAMBIA MENTI, 2016 - Frame video
A single fil rouge runs through the upper area of the Ivrea Movicentro, becoming the word that unites through different languages, recalling the connection that exists between human beings, in a crossroads of trails as in a station, it is the thread of Ariadne that guides through the labyrinth and supports the course of growth. The site specific work – conceived and created by Paola Risoli, together with management members of Ivrea’s Alcohol Abuse Association – is the result of the collaboration between the Pathology Department for Addictions, TO4 Local Health Authority, Associazione Mastropietro & C. Onlus, Departments of Social Policy and Culture of the City of Ivrea, ACAT, ZAC! Social Cooperative.
La Stampa, 12 aprile 2016
CAMBIA MENTI is artistic practice aimed at achieving a shared equilibrium, in which the work of art is but the final synthesis, “station of arrival and metaphysical place made ready for a new departure.” […] A story of transformation, told in the video CAMBIA MENTI work in progress, where the role of social responsibility that contemporary art is being asked to undertake today emerges more and more.
Fortunato D’Amico, Il Giornale delle Fondazioni 15 aprile 2016
Workshops on sculpture, video and words in the Journey of Telemachus project for young people with addictions, aged 18 to 28 (Il Punto Social Cooperative, Biella). Art as the maieutic method of creating the ideas and manual skills, that are often possessed, but not acted upon. A acknowledgement – through the actual making and taking possession of an object – and of experimentation with creative knowledge, even in a moment of deep rifts and profound crisis.
CLICK LUCE BUIO, 2019 - Work in progress
Telemaco
CLICK LUCE BUIO, 2019 - Frame video
CLICK LUCE BUIO, 2019 - Frame video
CLICK LUCE BUIO, 2019 - Work in progress
Servizio Dipendenze Patologiche ASLTO4 SettimoT.se
QUINTO STATO 2018 proiection @Circolo Ex societa operaia Valperga
QUINTO STATO work in progress Servizio Dipendenze Patologiche ASLTO4 Cirie
Servizio Dipendenze Patologiche ASLTO4 SettimoT.se
QUINTO STATO work in progress Servizio Dipendenze Patologiche ASLTO4 Cirie
“We’ve done things in the Alcohol Abuse unit, in the Local Health Authority Pathological Addiction Services, that you people wouldn’t believe,[…] and we have watched beams glitter in the dark near many doors. We have taken many photos, so that all those moments would not be lost in time. Time to live.”
The projects “between art and social vulnerability” took off with the Gruppo Abele di Torino nel 1992 and in 1997 captured the interest of the Local Health Authority Addiction Services of Caluso, Rivarolo, Ciriè, Settimo Torinese, the Drop-in centres in Ivrea and Cuorgnè, the Alcohol Abuse unit of Ivrea and the regional therapeutic communities. The artist worked on the projects as part of a team which included professional educators and psychologists from the Department of Pathological Addiction. Art was chosen as a rehabilitative means to be integrated into individual therapeutic programs. At the same time, Risoli worked at the local Centre for Mental Health and took part in private social health programmes such as Fragole Celesti, for female victims of abuse and violence, the Fermata d’Autobus therapeutic community in Torino, and the Journey of Telemachus project for young people aged 18 to 28 at Il Punto Social Cooperative in Biella.