Green Diamond
Italy
2022
Green Diamond plays with the boundaries between reality and fiction, historical archives and science fiction. Green Diamond was a 1990s Chinese hi-tech company that developed microchips capable of triggering sensations in the human body related to the experience of nature. Rachele Maistrello has reconstructed the personal archive of two workers of the factory, Li Jian Ping and Gao Yue, with analogue photographs, invoices, videos and found documents. Green Diamond is a critical work through a scientific, narrative and destabilising use of photographic language.
With the support of the Italian Cultural Institute of Paris.
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About the artist
Born in 1986, Rachele Maistrello trained at the IUAV in Venice, the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris and the Zürcher Hochschule der Künste in Zurich. She has exhibited in group and solo shows, including recently at the MAXXI Museum in Rome, Hamlet in Zürich, Kunstverein Bielefeld in Germany and the Inside Out Museum in Beijing.