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Hamlet Reviews

Folger Theater, 2010

The company’s current production of Hamlet boasts just one unique feature, but it’s a good one. Francesca Talenti has converted the play-within-a-play into a video presentation, which spills across James Kronzer’s pristine white set and keeps the onstage audience at the center of the action. A… bravura moment.
– Susan Berlin, TalkinBroadway.com
http://www.talkinbroadway.com/regional/dc/dc478.html

The play within the play… is staged as a kind of art film, silhouettes projected onto the faces and bodies of the actors, Velvet Underground “Exploding Plastic Inevitable”-style. It’s a stunning effect.
– Chris Kilmek, The Washington Examiner
http://chrisklimek.com/2010/05/04/hamlet-syndrome-not-hardly

Also haunting is the video design by Francesca Talenti, which makes for a truly eerie play-within-the-play scene.
– Jenn Larsen, WeLoveDC.com
http://www.welovedc.com/2010/05/04/we-love-arts-hamlet/

Sink and Swim

White flour, white clumps of clay, gradually forming animals.
One of them reaches the end of the table, or the edge of extinction.
Projected in the flour/sink is footage of embryonic salamanders.

Stove Top

White kettle affixed to wall; looped video projection.

Pantry Ghost

White chair, and footage of cadaver slices.

Milky Way

Frying pan with milk.
Projected onto the milk is footage of Ham the chimp, the first hominid launched into outer space.

Micro

Two monitors, two eyes, and a microwave, with toy kitchen inside.

Clear Skies

Fridge, toy tank.
In the freezer, footage of humans, polar bears, and arctic landscapes.

Dormant

Pot, earth, worms, and video of a woman on a gurney.
You can see her breathe if you peer into her little coffin.

Beholder

You see your face projected onto David’s, to the tune of 18 pop songs telling you you are beautiful.

Brainwash

Dishwasher, books, circuit boards, laptop, and Google.
Filtered knowledge.

REVIEW

Walking into Francesca Talenti’s Genesis: Mishaps in the Kitchen is like walking into a warped fusion of science and technology with your average kitchen… Using actual-sized appliances, small-scale sculpture elements and video and audio presentation, Talenti’s alternative kitchen asks big questions… Each installation intersects life with machine. Talenti points to the idea of how scientific development has led us to create technology, which, in turn, is now having a hand in our own creation.

-Sarah Lupton, The Independent Weekly

http://www.indyweek.com/indyweek/francesca-talenti-re-imagines-lifes-origins/Content?oid=1202989