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Liliana Moro (Milan, 1961) works and lives in Milan. When approaching her artworks, we have the perception that only what is strictly necessary is present. Sound, words, sculptures, objects and performance, create a world that “stages” a reality simultaneously raw and poetic. These are territories of an individual experience (that of the artist but mainly of the viewer) that ask for going beyond from what is visible. The reduction to the essential understood as an attitude, a practice and a positioning, does not result from a retate of a minimal language; it is rather something that that the artist triggers both when choosing to use elaborated techniques and when opting to use existent materials and everyday objects. A prominent element in Liliana Moro’s research is the political dimension, not translated in the illustration of contents, but related to the forms of addressing the recipients: for example by placing her work on the ground she implicitly asks the viewer to bend down to see it. Freedom of action is an important aspect of the artist’s work and it defines it but only partially: what creates an interesting difference is the relation between the universe of possibilities and a tension- both physical and poetical- produced from this relation.

Liliana Moro exhibited her work in major international group and solo exhibitions including: Documenta IV, Kassel; Aperto, XLV Venice Biennial; Castello di Rivoli, Turin; Quadriennale, Rome; Moderna Museet, Stockholm; PS1 New York; De Appel, Amsterdam; Triennale Milan, MAXXI, Rome; Galleria Nazionale d’arte, Rome; 58th Venice Biennial, Italian Pavillion; Galleria Emi Fontana, Milan; Greta Meert Bruxelles; MUHKA, Antwerpen; Italian Institute of Culture, Los Angeles; Fondazione A. Ratti, Como; Cubo Garutti-Museion, Bozen. One of her works is permanent at Fondazione Zegna, Trivero.

Francesco Fonassi (1986) is an artist and sonic researcher who works in several artistic fields. Within an ethical relation and attention towards the knowledge and the other, Fonassi’s artistic practice focuses on the perception’s dynamics and phenomenons, leading the real bumping into its own systems of separation and relation which express a common feeling. By his practice and the listening experience, he would like to analyze and study the human being behaviors and see how people react when exposed to situations such as aggression, isolation, interruption. In fact, using sound as the main medium, he believes that the sonic experience could create both active and passive relationships beyond which marking sharing places. Through actions, recordings, environmental configurations, radio transmissions, listening/audiovisual sessions and sensorial spaces, Fonassi conceives the space for a series of subjects who are no more passive but, on the contrary, percipient and susceptible of creating a unique collective experience, both social and acoustic.

His work has been presented in many different relevant art venues, both national and international. Among them: Palais de Tokyo, Parigi; MAXXI, Roma; CoCA, Torun; Viafarini DOCVA e CareOf, Milano; The Emily Harvey Foundation, New York; Fargfabriken, Stoccolma; Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Torino; Fondazione Memmo, Auditorium Parco della Musica e Macro, Roma; Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa, Venezia; MAG, Riva del Garda; Museo Pecci, Milano. He was one of the finalists of Furla award (2015) and LUM award (2011). He won the 6Artista award (2012). Among the various participations, festivals, residencies: BB15, Linz; Blockhaus DY10, Nantes; Bunker, Torino; DKSG Galerija e Remont Gallery, Belgrado; A Certain Lack Of Coherence, Porto; Glassbox, Parigi; LocaleDUE, Bologna; Sarajevo Winter Festival, Sarajevo; Bjcem, Skopje; Q16 – Quadriennale di Roma. Tra i programmi di residenza: Le Pavillon, Palais de Tokyo, Parigi; Fondazione Pastificio Cerere, Roma, Citè Internationale des Arts, Parigi; Atelier BLM, Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa, Venezia; Real Presence 2007-2010, Belgrado – Castello di Rivoli, Torino.