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Cleo FARISELLI's (b.1982 Cesenatico, Italia) analysis of the surrounding world, understood as the natural environment, is explored through her body, which becomes a means of connection with what surrounds her.
The artist incorporates her own body into her sculptural
pieces, using it as a tool to measure her ever-evolving relationship to the physical world. While she has worked with a myriad of materials throughout her practice, for the past four years, she has experimented with raku ceramic, a medium that allows her to cast selected anatomical parts of her body - such as a hip, a shoulder, half a face, or an ear - in which the dialectic between full and empty, external and internal, rough and smooth, takes on significant connotations.
As the artist states, “The body part will continue to exist as an empty space, an invisible shape, defined by the terracotta skin.” In her works, the physical body is transformed into an absent void; however, Fariselli does not perceive this emptiness as a sign of lack. Rather, she presents it as an alternative space that is full of potential, one that can forge new relational paths and imaginative interpretations of the world.
Cleo Fariselli currently resides in Turin. Her work has been exhibited in major public and private institutions in Italy and abroad, including MAXXI, Rome (2024); CAC - Contemporary Art Center (Cincinnati, USA, 2022); Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo (2022); GNAM - National Gallery of Modern Art (Rome, 2021); Palazzo Fortuny (Venice, 2017 and 2018); Centro Pecci (Prato, 2017); EACC (Castelló, Spain, 2013); Palazzo Reale (Milan, 2008 and 2011). In 2021-2022, she won the Italian Council production grant.