Alessandra Ausenda
One More Breath
mixed media
Penlee House was built for the Branwell family in 1865. Their family albums are both an intimate record of a family living and working in West Penwith as well as an historic document of those times.
What constitutes history is closely connected to the individual. Alessandra Ausenda’s grandmother at the age of 99 can recall and bring to life many of the Branwell images. Through images of her grandmother’s childhood and motherhood spent in West Penwith, Ausenda explores a sense of belonging to a landscape and a community. We hold memories in different ways, fleeting recollections, fragments of conversations, moments captured in photographs.
Ausenda’s work contains glimpses, snapshots, a way of pulling together threads that can be woven in a multitude of ways. She has chosen to use fabric for these reasons as well as making a reference to wrapping ourselves with memories as we might with a blanket or ultimately with a shroud.
Alessandra Ausenda is also showing a larger mixed media textile piece at Penlee House Gallery and Museum.
One More Breath
mixed media
Penlee House was built for the Branwell family in 1865. Their family albums are both an intimate record of a family living and working in West Penwith as well as an historic document of those times.
What constitutes history is closely connected to the individual. Alessandra Ausenda’s grandmother at the age of 99 can recall and bring to life many of the Branwell images. Through images of her grandmother’s childhood and motherhood spent in West Penwith, Ausenda explores a sense of belonging to a landscape and a community. We hold memories in different ways, fleeting recollections, fragments of conversations, moments captured in photographs.
Ausenda’s work contains glimpses, snapshots, a way of pulling together threads that can be woven in a multitude of ways. She has chosen to use fabric for these reasons as well as making a reference to wrapping ourselves with memories as we might with a blanket or ultimately with a shroud.
Alessandra Ausenda is also showing a larger mixed media textile piece at Penlee House Gallery and Museum.
The Branwells at Penlee, photograph; currently
on display at Penlee House.
Collection of Penlee House Gallery and Museum