MATTEO DE CAMINADA (he/him) born 2001 in Italy, is an interdisciplinary artist. His practice focuses on sculpture, installation and performance.
His work takes a clear artistic and political position, challenging entrenched social conventions and normative structures, and pushing toward more progressive and equitable futures.
As an activist and speaker, he moves between subcultural communities and public platforms, translating lived experience into artistic and political discourse. Previously trained in Architecture and Fine Arts; De Caminada is currently part of the Department of Transdisciplinary Arts (TransArts) at the University of Applied Arts Vienna (Die Angewandte).
The most recent CV, biography, and portfolio are available upon email request. In the meantime, please refer to the online portfolio linked below.
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I am not interested in making work that reassures. I never was.
I am interested in what resists reassurance: excess, decay, loss, desire, violence, and the structures that shape what we are permitted to feel and say.
I am interested in what we live through but are ashamed to name. excess, decay, loss, the surroundings that press against us until they become unbearable. The things that happen inside a body before language arrives for them.
My experiences are specific. My problems are my own. But the feelings they produce are not, they belong to everyone who has ever been shaped by something they did not choose. I examine how ideological structures and social norms are internalized, and what that internalization costs us. Every day.
The political is never abstract. It does not live in institutions alone, it lives in the body, in relationships, in the architecture of the spaces we move through and the silences we are trained to keep.
We inhabit a world defined by compounding injustices. It will probably always be like this.
My art exists to produce discourse.I am here to speak, to create discourse.
That is the aim of my life.