I encapsulate everything I find and everything that passes through my life, here and now. I use resin to enclose it all within, as if it were a skin onto which materials of various kinds are deposited. To make my own both the visible and the hidden aspects of reality. Juxtaposing materials according to their potential. In the coexistence of objects, figures and stories in constant evolution. In works that evoke the transformations and cross-fertilisation in which we are immersed. Works that become relics, guardians of preservation.
Alice Graziadio (1994, Turin)
She lives and works between Puglia and Calabria. She obtained her Master’s degree from the Academy of Fine Arts in Lecce. She is currently a subject specialist for the course on Painting Techniques and Extramedial Techniques at the Academy of Fine Arts in Lecce, taught by Professor Antonio De Luca. She attends PIA, an independent and experimental school for research and production for artists and curators in Lecce.
Since 2015, her practice has also extended into the fields of video and performance. She has presented her work at various events organised by UNISALENTO and DAMS, the Academy of Fine Arts in Lecce and MUST – the Historical Museum of Lecce, including ‘Incipit I’ and ‘Incipit II’, exhibiting in venues such as Fondo Verri and Galleria Scaramuzza.
Recent exhibitions:
Castromediano Museum, Lecce, Pia School exhibition space (2023); Sonora – independent space, Taranto (2022); IoCalabria, Cosenza (2021); MOOD – Norman-Swabian Castle, Cosenza (2021);
IPAZIA, Lecce (2019); Incipit II, Lecce (2018); Scaramuzza Gallery, Lecce (2018); Verri Collection (2018) – MUST, Lecce (2018); Incipit I, Lecce (2017); Verri Collection, Lecce (2017); Galleria Arca, Lecce (2017); International Museum of the Former Concentration and Labour Camp – Ferramonti di Tarsia, Cosenza (2012, 2013, 2014)
Presents the work entitled:
Reliquīae, 2018, cast, mixed media, organic and inorganic materials, 200x60x80.
The artist’s body at rest. By compulsively archiving and preserving artificial materials and organic waste within the resin and amongst the strips of fabric, I give concrete form to the need to cling to reality, to render the passing of time sacred.
