about

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I am an interdisciplinary visual artist and researcher with a practice in video and performance. I was born in Venezuela with the privilege of double nationality and raised mainly in Italy. After 20 years spent in the blue banana, currently I live in Naples where I’m researching on Hacking Monuments, Atlas dei Corpi and Giardino*. I work on [Radical Public Culture] projects like VVV-R project. My pronouns are She/Her/Hers

STATEMENT

My research activates relational processes aimed at understanding and challenging human hierarchies. My practice is rooted in in situ approaches and unfolds through participatory observation, often in public spaces. It is performative in nature: it begins by placing myself within a situation to provoke a shift—whether in posture, perception, relationships, or function. Currently, I focus on interspecies interdependence within agricultural contexts and on monuments as sites of counter-narratives. The outcomes of these processes take the form of photographs, installations, drawings, videos, books or curatorial projects.

Exibits

I presented my works in exhibitions and festivals throughout Europe, America and East Asia, both in underground and institutional frameworks, such as the Museum of Contemporary Art in Caracas, the Museum of Modern Art of Moscow, MANN of Naples, YBCA San Francisco, the Hong Kong Space Museum and the Experimental Media and Performing Arts Centre in New York. Many of my interventions in the public space have been realized in the frame of art residencies like for example Kunstlerdorf Schoeppingen (DE), VIR (I), State Of The City (NL), MansionBlatt (Lebanon), Le Belordinaire (Fr)

STUDIES

I graduated in film direction from the Scuola di Cinema, Televisione e Nuovi Media (Milan, 2000) while studying contemporary dance at CIMD and with various authors (as Wim Vandekeybus, Sosta Palmizi founders, Nigel Charnock, Susanne Linke). While working on performance and movement in Paris, in 2005 my work get a relational and interdependent turn, a turn fed by the path to get the Master’s degree in Fine Arts (DNSEP, Paris 2009). An aspect I stressed in the frame the Advanced Master of Research in Art & Design i Social and Political Context at Sint Lucas School of Arts (Antwerp, 2020).

COLLABORATIONS

With À Peau d’Écran collective, which I founded with Claire Ubéda in Paris in 2003, I researched on haptic properties of the image working within video, performance and interactive devices. When I shifted my work in the public space, I’ve translated my somatic approach into visual and relational devices. Ex-Voto Association for Radical Public Culture has curated most of those interventions. Moreover, In the frame of its activities, we’ve collectively conceived and founded Non Riservato network and we are part of Borderlight Collective. I worked on participate sound devices within DIMMER Collective (Andrea Amici+Nicola Ciancio+me). As Vegapunk I’ve collaborated to various project supporting artists.