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Last update: April 2025
Suburban melancholic, digital nihilist, full-time flâneur.
He makes images—moving and still, digital and analog— through a sculptural, speculative lens. Thinks and works in/by/with fragments, loops, layers; endlessly edits.
Through gestures of appropriation, un-making, re-staging and minimal display, his recent practice explores the ontology and technics of images, questioning their material and immaterial stakes by lingering at thresholds, edges, and sites of failure.
Born and raised in Torino (IT), lived and studied in Paris (FR) and Venice (IT), he is currently based in Rotterdam (NL). In 2024, he graduated from the Piet Zwart Institute (MA, Lens-Based Media). He actively engages in collective/curatorial/artist-run initiatives, such as BBBLS (upcoming), VLAK - smallbuttall and Filmwerkplaats.
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links to full moving image works on request
Education:
2022-2024 Master of Arts in Lens-Based Media (Piet Zwart Institute, Rotterdam)
2019-2022 Master’s degree in Visual Arts (IUAV University, Venice)
2016-2019 Bachelor’s degree in Architecture (Politecnico di Torino, ENSA Paris La Villette)
Selected exhibitions and screenings:
05/2025
LTOSLTOSTOLSOTLOS[...] solo show , The Crooked Studio, Rotterdam (NL)
03/2025
76x32x32_200x85x360, collective show, VLAK / smallbuttall, Rotterdam (NL)
09/2024
De Vlakke Hamer open house, collective show, VLAK / smallbuttall, during Grote Rotterdam Atelier Weekend, Rotterdam (NL)
06/2024
CURRENTLY, CURRENTLY, CURRENTLY. Final graduation show of the Lens-Based Media Master Program, V2 - Lab for Unstable Media and Ubik, Rotterdam (NL)
09/2023
Flying Ideas - Shorts in progress at WORM, Rotterdam (NL)
04/2023
EYE Research Lab, EYE Film Museum, Amsterdam (NL)
08/2022
Wasteland - Digital Debris curated by Galerie de Jalozie at The Grey Space in The Middle, Den Haag (NL)
07/2022
Unfinished Film Festival, Odapark, Venray (NL)
04/2022
Presentation and screening of Dubai Dispositif as part of Laboratorio di Arti Visive 2, Bachelor’s degree program in Multimedia Arts at IUAV University, Venice (IT), invited by prof. Francesco Zucconi.
02/2022
Collective exhibition “Telefoni di Stato, desidera?” at DRIN, Bolzano (IT)
07/2021
ARCHIPELAGO - Proiezioni d’archivio at Spazio Punch, Venice (IT)
12/2020 - 01/2021
OFFSHORE IN VENICE project (online residency and final exhibition) with artist Cally Spooner at the SHED by
Shedhalle, Zurich (CH).
12/2019
Trasformazione, Alchimia, Artificio, V-A-C Foundation, Venice (IT).
09/2019
What does production have to do with art?, residency and final exhibition at Accademia Unidee / Cittadellarte- Fondazione Pistoletto, Biella (IT).
Residencies:
12/2020 - 01/2021
OFFSHORE IN VENICE online residency , IUAV University x the SHED by Shedhalle, Zurich (CH).
09/2019
What does production have to do with art?, residency program at Accademia Unidee / Cittadellarte- Fondazione Pistoletto, Biella (IT).