Past Residents

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Italy, Greece

Past Resident
2024: The Italian Academy for Advanced Studies, Columbia University, Italian Cultural Institute of New York, Directorate-General for Public and Cultural Diplomacy of the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Directorate-General for Contemporary Creativity of the Italian Ministry of Culture

Artist

Raffaela Naldi Rossano

Raffaela Naldi Rossano is a multi-disciplinary artist who explores a wide range of media, including installation, video, sculpture, text, drawings and performance. Her artworks are research-driven and process-based, intended as relational vehicles that seek to trigger new possible relationships, both psychological and socio-political, between spaces, bodies and objects. The Mediterranean area, starting from her hometown Napoli, stands at the epicenter of her practice.

Raffaela Naldi Rossano has exhibited works at Swiss Istitute, Milan; TBA21 Academy, Venice; and Kunst Institute, Basel, among others.

Events & Exhibitions

2024 Spring Open Studios
April 12–April 13, 2024
Raffaela Naldi Rossano, Warp, video installation, mixed media, variable duration, 2022. Co-commissioned and co-produced by LIAF and TBA21 Academy. Developed in the context of a residency on the research vessel Helmer Hanssen. View at Fantasmagoriana, LIAF 2022, curated by Francesco Urbano Ragazzi.
Photo Kjell-Ove Storvik. C.sy the Artist

Raffaela Naldi Rossano, WARP, 2022, video installation
Raffaela Naldi Rossano, SERPENTINA. Per un mūsēum senza tempo, 2023, view at Stazione di Belvì Aritzo, Belvì. Una Boccata d’Arte 2023, promoted by Fondazione Elpis, in collaboration with Galleria Continua and Threes. Photo Gianluca Muscas. C.sy the Artist
Raffaela Naldi Rossano, Serpentina, 2023, multimedia installation
Raffaela Naldi Rossano, view at Quadriennale d’Arte 2020 FUORI, curated by Sarah Cosulich and Stefano Collicelli Cagol. Photo Maurizio Esposito. C.sy the Artist
Raffaela Naldi Rossano, We are the granddaughters of the witches you were never able to burn, 2020, glazed ceramic
Raffaela Naldi Rossano, Undomesticated Voices, 2021, multimedia installation
solo show at Der Tank curated by Chus Martinez
Raffaela Naldi Rossano, I Confess, 2019, multimedia installation

Residents from Italy

Chiara Ianeselli

Quel jour sommes-nous, 15-30 June 2022, co-curated with Bakul Patki, at Tokonoma, Kassel. Credit: Rene Graf. quel jour sommes-nous? (what day is it?) is a research project in the form of an exhibition that questions what makes an artwork - investigating the performativity and process of an exhibit, the acts that brought it into existence, and the context of its presentation. Featuring seventeen established and emerging artists, quel jour sommes-nous? explores the differing forms, lifespans, and pathways of artworks – with historicised and timeless, appropriated and reapproriated, unauthored and unauthorised, dismantled and intangible works, all of which sit beside a graduate piece that will be graded in situ, just ahead of the exhibition’s opening. An “unfinished” work will also be included. The concept of a finished work of art – one that is deemed ready to be shared – has been debated throughout art history, particularly in relation to potential different readings once it has been pulled from a definite temporal context. Continuing the contentious conversation around when a piece of art is complete, one work in progress will be taken from an artist’s studio, at a time of the curators’ choosing, and inserted into the exhibition. quel jour sommes-nous? reflects upon the evolution of the creative process – the choices, challenges and breakthroughs that come with making art – asking when, within this process, does something become a work of art, and who gets to decide? On which day is something ready to be sold or exhibited? Is today the day the artist has to surrender a work they might never see again? Extending this reflection on when a work comes into existence, the exhibition also asks whether it is possible for artworks to exist without an audience. How much is the public required for the creative process to be complete, and how preeminent is the artist’s vision in influencing the viewer’s experience of the work? quel jour sommes-nous? does not profess to answer these questions, but hopes to encourage examination and inspire further exploration. It is at once exhibition as research and research as exhibition
Italy
Italian Council - Directorate-General for Contemporary Art and Architecture and Urban Peripheries (DGAAP) at the Italian Ministry for Cultural Heritage and Activities
Studio #204

Valentina Furian

Ciacco, 2021, installation view at
Italy
The Italian Academy for Advanced Studies, Columbia University, Italian Cultural Institute of New York
2024

Vanina Saracino

Patricia Domínguez, Matrix Vegetal (2022). Installation at the Archenhold Observatory, Berlin. Exhibition: Other Minds (Screen City Biennial). Photo: Marjorie Brunet Plaza. Courtesy the artist.
Italy, Germany
Artis
2023
Canada

Past Resident
2024: Alberta Foundation for the Arts, Edmonton Arts Council

Artist

Alma Visscher

Alma Louise Visscher creates fabric-based installations, jewelry and drawings that consider resources and material culture and the poetic possibilities and problems within these. Through process and materials, she explores the intersection of materiality and the unknowable, the ecology of places, and the things that hold us, care for us, and comfort us. These motivations have led her to explore materials such as working with natural dyes and inks sourced from her immediate environments and repurposed textiles and materials.

Alma Louise Visscher has exhibited work at Art Gallery of Alberta, Alberta; Idea Exchange. Ontario; Kimura Gallery, Alaska, among others.

Events & Exhibitions

2024 Spring Open Studios
April 12–April 13, 2024
A drawing on white paper made with black ink. The drawing is made up of small brush strokes and depicts a fabric-like form.
Alma Visscher, Odradek, 2021, handmade ink on paper, 14 × 10 in. (35.56 × 25.4 cm)
A white page with overlapping abstract forms in the centre. The marks are made with ink, fabric, and paper.
Alma Visscher, Hedge Study, 2023, cedar ink, handmade paper and fabric on paper, 12 × 17 in. (30.48 × 43.18 cm)
A painting made up up pleated fabric in a variety of colours.
Alma Visscher, holding it together, 2021, machine pleated and dyed and airbrushed found fabric, 36 × 24 in. (91.44 × 60.96 cm)
Two panels of fabric connected by sheer draped fabric. Left panel is predominantly grey and white with some pink. Right panel is more pink and peach with some yellow.
Alma Visscher, The waiting, 2019, hand painted and airbrushed cotton and linen fabric, grommets and draping, 108 × 35 in. (274.32 × 88.9 cm)
Seven fabric tote bag like forms are installed in a triangle shape on a white wall. The fabric is painted a range of pinks and pastel colours.
Alma Visscher, Portable Paintings, 2018, hand dyed and sewnfabric, dimensions variable

Residents from Canada

Timothy Manalo

A multi-colored woven mat laid on a wood paneled floor with white plaster casts of fast-food items.
Canada
Canada Council for the Arts, Toronto Arts Council
Studio #305

Gwenessa Lam

Canada
Canada Council for the Arts
Studio #202

Insoon Ha

South Korea, Canada
Canada Council for the Arts
2024