Artists in residence

Alessandro Di Lorenzo (b. 1997) is an artist born in Bari, who grew up in Matera (Italy).

He has created works that fuse sculptural installations with video and performance. His ritualistic actions, sculptures and drawings unfold in a hybridized space at the crossroads of the real, the imaginary, and the symbolic. His approach is linked to an art of metamorphosis, constantly evoking an encounter with a sensitive milieu that generates new possibilities of co-dependence.

His more recent works are conceived as speculative docu-fiction and are often presented as an interdependence between human and non-human beings, biological forms, modern and ancestral technologies that change composition and evolve. They provoke an investigation into vernacular objects and certain marginal realities of southern Italy, revealing the role that small mythologies and everyday rituals play in our society.

Lucas Di Pascuale´s practice develops between the limits of drawing, writing and reading; amongst editorial practice and teaching. His work is informed by the connections between the intimate, the everyday life, the public and the historical. In recent years, he has directed his work toward concerns centered around the copy and the quote, often drawing on autobiographical aspects or biographies of his affective environment in which writing, on occasion, serves as a trigger. Montage, which is another important dimension in his work, functions both as a place of memory and of emptiness. Born in 1968 in Córdoba, Argentina, Lucas Di Pascuale obtained undergraduate and graduate degrees at the Facultad de Artes UNC, where he currently teaches.

VISUAL ARTS

INSTALLATION

“My two most recent installations, Driven From Their Homes and Arrival: The Rohingya, are anti-war travels and stories and a call to mercy.

My work is a hybrid of installation sculpture and illusionist staging. The wonder of the installation sculpture is that it surrounds the viewer. I try to place the viewer in a series of scenes, so that he/she can travel with these refugees for a few moments. What interests me above all is accessibility. I try to express urgency and immediacy. I fervently hope that if I tell this story in sculpture, which is so tangible, it will become more present and more real for us. If we face the terrible truth of war, we may find a way to stop it.

I have exhibited bronze pieces at Brookgreen Garden in South Carolina, the National Sculpture Society in New York and the National Arts Club in New York. I have installed life-size stages at Norfolk International Airport and the Fitchburg Museum, Berkshire Museum, Springfield Museum, and Chesterwood, National Trust in Massachusetts. Recently, I set up my work at the Westport Art Center in Connecticut and the Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center in Cape Cod.”

Diamond Stingily was born in 1990 in Chicago, Illinois. She lives and works in New York City. Her work explores social class, race and gender and is infused with the deeply personal, incorporating references to her family and her own childhood.

Her work has been presented in numerous institutions including Museum of Modern Art, New York (USA, 2022), Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein (Liechtenstein, 2022), Kunstverein Munich (Germany, 2019), CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts (USA, 2019), Institute of Contemporary Art Miami, Florida, USA (2018).

During her residency, Diamond Stingily will examine the manuscript of a novel inspired by Antonin Artaud’s muse, the author and actress Colette Thomas, who wrote Le testament de la fille morte (1954) under the pseudonym René. Diamond Stingily will also explore the work of American authors who lived and died in France, such as James Baldwin and Richard Wright, and will produce new sculptures and videos inspired by his research and poems.