Current Resident: Jan 1, 2021–Jun 30, 2021
Italian Cultural Institute of New York
Studio #201
Artist
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.
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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.
Current Resident: Mar 1, 2021–May 31, 2021
Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec
Studio #202
Artist
Joani Tremblay
Joani Tremblay investigates the perception of place through the relationship between landscape and its simulations and reproductions. The artist does not paint from traditional observed landscapes, but from a constructed idea of a place assembling images from a variety of sources (advertisements, postcards, Instagram architecture influencers, social media, mass communications, and from field research). Tremblay assembles these images in digital collage testing hundred possibilities before translating them into painting and considering different application of the oil paint.
Joani Tremblay has exhibited work at Harper’s Gallery, New York; Marie-Laure Fleisch Gallery, Brussels; and Interstate Projects, Brooklyn, among others.
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Joani Tremblay, Quaderno, 2019, oil on linen, 30 × 36 in. (76.2 × 91.44 cm).
Joani Tremblay, Quaderno 6, 2019, oil on linen, 30 × 36 in. (76.2 × 91.44 cm).
Joani Tremblay, What Makes Life Worth Living, 2020, Installation view at Projet Pangee Gallery, Montreal, dimensions variable.
Joani Tremblay, Lemons for Catherine, 2020, oil on linen, 30 × 36 in. (76.2 × 91.44 cm).
Joani Tremblay, Untitled, 2021, oil on linen, 30 × 36 in. (76.2 × 91.44 cm).
Current Resident: Jan 1, 2021–Mar 31, 2021
Canada Council for the Arts
Studio #203
Curator
Anaïs Castro
Anaïs Castro is a curator and writer based in Toronto and New York. She is one of the founding members of the curatorial collective The Department of Love. She is an editorial member of Daily Lazy and publishes regularly in esse art + opinions, Espace, and this is tomorrow.
Anaïs Castro has co-curated exhibitions at La Galerie de l’UQAM, Montreal; Shanghai Academy of Fine Arts; and R E I T E R | Prospects, Berlin among others.
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Nakeya Brown, Marilou Craft, Erika deFreitas, Stanley Février, Amartey Golding, Manuel Mathieu, Chloé Savoie-Bernard, Over My Black Body, 2019, exhibition view. co-curated with Eunice Bélidor at La Galerie de l'UQAM.
Andrea Acosta, Larissa Fassler, Mila Panic, and Nina Wiesnagrotzki, Ground Control, 2019, exhibition installation view. Exhibition co-curated by Anaïs Castro and Verity Seward at R E I T E R | Berlin prospect.
Isa Carrillo, Alex Coma, Hector Jimenez Castillo, OMSK Social Club, Marigold Santos and Jennifer Murphy Stewart Hall Art Gallery, and Pointe-Claire, Mystic Toolkit, 2020, exhibition view at Stewart Hall Art Gallery.
Débora Delmar, Jade Montserrat, Alvin Tran, and Steven Warwick, The Department of Love, 2019, performances. Performances co-curated by Olivia Aherne, Paulina Ascencio, Celina Basra, and Anaïs Castro at Art Night London 2019.
aaajiao, Diego Ascencio, Ramiro Avila, Richard Brautigan, Feng Chen, Quiet Kate, Mountain River Jump!, Klara Ravat, Evelyn Taocheng-Wang, Alvin Tran, Steven Warwick and Xu Zhen, The Department of Love, 2018, exhibition view, dimensions variable. co-curated with Olivia Aherne, Paulina Ascencio, Celina Basra and Tiange Yang at Shanghai Academy of Fine Arts.
