About Us is the new art project created by Tracey Snelling for The Home of The Human Safety Net, which complements the interactive exhibition A World of Potential at the Procuratie Vecchie in San Marco square. It will be on display for visitors until March 24, 2025.
About Us takes the visitor through a surprising city teeming with life, where inhabited spaces contain stories, images and voices. A vibrant microcosm to explore, made up of people within their communities, which speaks of our strengths and how we can grow and make an impact. The artworks represent urban conglomerates, made with craft materials and techniques and simple technological insertions, such as photos, sounds and lights. Through them, Tracey Snelling addresses some of the major themes at the heart of The Human Safety Net’s mission, first and foremost the right of everyone to be able to improve their living conditions and those of their families and communities, even from a condition of vulnerability.
Through articulated, small scale sculptures, the artist captures the essence of everyday life, from the most banal moments to the most intimate narratives behind closed windows, recreating environments and buildings inspi red by places she has actually visited and investigated during her travels around the world. The observer is thus stimulated to confront the challenges of society and, through sociological observations, to discover different cultures and experiences that unite human beings even behind apparent dis parities. The encounter with A World of Potential invites to an experience of coexistence through collective and tangible action in reality.
The curator Luca Massimo Barbero said: The presence of the sculptural works created by Trac ey Snelling for the Art Studio is a unique and significant opportunity to present to the public her work of continuous research into places, the people who inhabit them and their experiences, an ideal and conceptual connection with the mission of The Human Safety Net. Through her t ravels, the artist has in fact been able to examine different aspects of the human condition in the context of housing quality and the consequences that poverty has on the individual, the community and society. H er works represent the idealization of and relationship with architecture understood a s housing, as sharing the city environment, as the place of the individual’s essential needs.
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Photo courtesy of the artist.
