Dracula Is In This Room
Madeleine Fratarcangelo, MFA 2023, Sculpture
Madeleine Fratarcangelo casts the body as a tool of production, making thousands of plaster tiles to construct a perfect infinite projection — a raised floor interrupted by a cut on two sides. This stage is unwalkable, unenterable, and evidences scant trace of the artist’s hand. It is a sterile un-invitation to dance with the burdened vampire whose name echoes out from the room unseen. Her work tastes of a frightened insistence against something new, and a harried concealment of something dangerously autobiographical. It is, as written by Pessoa, a dream of a new sort — a soft and shapeless thing, that reverberates like the white whorls of ocean rising up from the depths of a vast truth: a body made of nostalgia with a soul of foam, repose, death.
“Notation,” 2023, transcription of Fernando Pessoa text, 5”x8”. Photo credit: Neighboring States
“Dracula Is In This Room” (detail), 2023, hand-cast plaster tile, 189”x167”. Photo credit: Neighboring States
“Dracula Is In This Room,” 2023, hand-cast plaster tile, 189”x167”. Photo credit: Neighboring States
“Dracula Is In This Room,” 2023, hand-cast plaster tile, 189”x167”. Photo credit: Neighboring States
“Dracula Is In This Room,” 2023, pencil on wall, 16”x235”. Photo credit: Neighboring States
“Dracula Is In This Room,” 2023, hand-cast plaster tile, 189”x167”. Photo credit: Neighboring States
“Notation,” 2023, transcription of Fernando Pessoa text, 5”x8”. Photo credit: Neighboring States
“Dracula Is In This Room”, 2023, hand-cast plaster tile, 189”x167”. Photo credit: Neighboring States
Madeleine Fratarcangelo
Website: www.madeleinefratarcangelo.com
Instagram: @mmafsculpture
Madeleine Fratarcangelo is currently living in Philadelphia, PA, and graduated with an MFA in Sculpture as a University Fellow from the Tyler School of Art and Architecture.