XYZ Artist in residence
Wiggle Room
Francesco Felletti (UK-based Italian artist) and Natasha Brown (UK-based South African artist),after graduating from MA Fine Art at Central Saint Martins together (2022), have been working collaboratively as the duo “Wiggle Room” on a number of public-facing, research-based, fun-and-games projects. Their practice questions the role of the artist in both public and private spaces and communities. They focus on creating adaptive, temporary works that interact with stories and context to produce public interventions.
“This project started with a series of conversations between us – drawing from our own feelings and dialogues on the housing crisis, the project delved into the frustration of “not having enough space”. With the rise of the living cost, people struggle to find space, sweating every square meter and narrowing the vision of space to a sad equation: money = space. With this project, we wanted to propose wiggle room. There is wiggle room everywhere, but paradoxically also nowhere at all. It is in a pub’s toilet, in a corner of that street, and just under a tree in that park. We propose that wiggle room is also a discovery: “Look out there! What’s that?”. It is deep-rooted as if it has always belonged there, but it can also be new and ephemeral. Wiggle Room is a project that wanted to sit within the surroundings, generating actions and interventions that are in and out of context and temporary. Starting from an investigation into the history and functioning of the area of Ealing and its inhabitants, it created alternative moments hidden within the mundane. Full project here“
