artist residency: April - June 2026
exhibition: 19 - 27 June 2026
Mara Cavalli
During my residency at Derry Print Workshop, I have explored the potential of photo etching techniques in dialogue with my video work, which looks at the traces we leave behind in the built environment. The resulting works departs from the idea of places in relation to history, and zoom into the perception of space as such.
This residency has allowed me to focus on my artistic practice which, for too long, had been sidelined by my work as a video maker.
I have been able test new processes and move, from using video editing to rearrange time, to the idea of repetition associated with the specificity of the printmaking process itself, based on the action of making multiples of the same plate.
In the etching process there is a lot of room for error, and you are often at the mercy of materials, from exposure times to ink consistency, pressure, and paper. These variables often result in an imperfect edition, snapshots of the process: they are a moment in time of where the work could and might go.
Mara Cavalli is an Italian printmaker and filmographer based in Derry. She holds a degree in Fine Art from the University of Bologna and a Master degree in Documentary Practice from Ulster University. She has an ongoing collaboration with documentary makers in UK, Lituania, Italy, Tanzania, and her documentaries have been shown nationally and internationally. In Derry she has worked with Context Gallery, CCA Derry~Londonderry, and Void, where she documented the participation at the Venice Biennale 2019.
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This residency is in collaboration with Derry Print Workshop and it is produced in the context of HEARTLANDS, Art Arcadia’s nomadic programme of residencies developed in collaboration with local businesses, organisations, community groups.
Art Arcadia HEARTLANDS is supported by the National Lottery through the Arts Council of Northern Ireland.
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