Past Residents
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
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).
Residents from Finland
Past Resident2021: Canada Council for the Arts
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.
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.
