Past Residents
Kubra Khademi
Kubra Khademi considers herself as a multidisciplinary artist. Interested in subjects of female identity such as sexuality, she has—for the past few years—been creating performances and performative videos where her body is always at the center. Recently, using personal stories as raw material for art, she has returned to her drawing practices of self-portraits and images of women.
Kubra Khademi has exhibited work at Galerie Eric Mouchet, Paris; MUCEM, Marseille; and Palais de Tokyo, Paris, among others.
Kubra Khademi, The Warm War, 2019, gouache on paper and gold, 141 × 95 in. (358.14 × 241.3 cm).
Kubra Khademi, Untitled, 2019, gouache on paper and gold, 39 × 31 in. (99.06 × 78.74 cm).
Kubra Khademi, Untitled, 2019, gouache on paper and gold, 29 × 22 in. (73.66 × 55.88 cm).
Kubra Khademi, The Great Accord, 2019, gouache on paper, 39 × 29 in. (99.06 × 73.66 cm).
Kubra Khademi, Falak, 2019, gouache on paper and gold, 47 × 74 in. (119.38 × 187.96 cm).
Past Resident2021: Italian Cultural Institute of New York
Francesco Simeti
Francesco Simeti creates site-specific installations, which the artist describes as “aesthetically enchanting scenes” that reveal a complex subtext upon closer inspection. Since the late nineties, he has explored the environmental crisis, the numerous conflicts and consequent displacements of people, through sculptures and video animations. The artist conceive of these as a form of collage.
Francesco Simeti has exhibited work at Castello di Rivoli, Torino, Italy; Mass Moca, North Adams; and Rhode Island School of Design among others.
Francesco Simeti, Unrelenting, 2020, animation projection, 5 min. loop.
Francesco Simeti, Curtain, 2017, printed velvet, 2285/16 × 1023/8 in. (579.88 × 260.1 cm).
Francesco Simeti, Curtain (detail), 2017, printed velvet, 2285/16 × 1023/8 in. (579.88 × 260.1 cm).
Francesco Simeti, Swell, 2017, printed sintra and motors, dimensions variable.
Francesco Simeti, Bensonhurst Gardens, 2012, printed glass, dimensions variable.
Residents from United States
Aryel René Jackson
Studio #305
Hanae Utamura
Studio #201
Past Resident2021: Uniarts Helsinki's Academy of Fine Arts and Saastamoinen Foundation
Uwa Iduozee
Uwa Iduozee is a photographer and documentary filmmaker based in Helsinki and New York. Iduozee works with narratives that opens new visual representations and understandings towards identities: his work focuses on expanding the ways in which contemporary society understands blackness by challenging this traditional framework. History of Afro-Finnishness and Black identities are recurrent topics in his recent work.
Uwa Iduozee has exhibited work at Finnish Museum of Photography, Helsinki, and will be exhibiting at the Helsinki Biennale 2021.
Events & Exhibitions
2021 Spring Open Studios
April 27–April 28, 2021
Uwa Iduozee, Sunny from They Walked on Water, 2019, archival pigment print, 32 × 24 in. (81.28 × 60.96 cm).
Uwa Iduozee, Chauncey from They Walked on Water, 2019, archival pigment print, 32 × 24 in. (81.28 × 60.96 cm).
Uwa Iduozee, Edod, 2017, archival pigment print, 30 × 22 in. (76.2 × 55.88 cm).
Uwa Iduozee, Khadra from They Walked on Water, 2019, archival pigment print, 32 × 24 in. (81.28 × 60.96 cm).
