Love and Grief, 2018
Performance and installation
XIV Land Art Festival, Parco della Quarantena, Camp Flegrei, Italy

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Love and Grief pays tribute to Teresa Mangiacapra, an artist with whom Sykes collaborated for two years in Naples, Italy.  Mangiacapra, who died in 2018, was a sculptor, performance artist, and member of le Nemesiache, a feminist performance collective founded in 1970 by her sister Lina Mangiacapre. Central stones culled from the site are complemented by mirror and wood embedded in the earth to form a ritual circle of mourning. A ladder soars upward in an infinite reach. Connecting sky to landscape, this work celebrates Mangiacapra’s magnanimous spiritual nature.


Concept and direction: Ginny Sykes
Performer: Ginny Sykes
Music (video only): Victor Sanders
Installation: Ginny Sykes, Luigi Montesfochi
Camera: Luigi Montefoschi
Video Editing: Ginny Sykes, Luigi Montefoschi