ABOUT
MATTEO DE CAMINADA (he) born in Italy, is an interdisciplinary artist and curator working primarily with sculpture and installation. He graduated in architecture and currently studies Fine Arts, his practice moves between spatial design, curatorial work, and activist engagement. His work articulates a clear artistic and political position, interrogating entrenched social conventions and normative ideological structures while advancing gestures of subversion toward more progressive and equitable futures. He lives and works between Italy, Austria, and Germany.
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I am not interested in making comfortable work. I am interested in the things we live through but are ashamed to name. Loss. Excess. The need to understand yourself through chaos. My experiences are specific, but the feelings are universal. Art is inherently political. When it ceases to be, it risks becoming mere ornament. We inhabit a world defined by urgent, compounding injustices, and the artist carries both a duty and a distinctive capacity: to bring critical discourse to audiences far beyond the boundaries of the art world.My practice is grounded in this conviction. I examine how social norms, ideological structures, and systems of value are internalized, and what they cost us personally. Because for me, the political is never abstract. It lives in the body, in relationships, in the spaces we inhabit at night, in the moments we fall apart.
I also refuse to limit my voice to institutional contexts. Art that stays exclusively within gallery walls risks speaking only to those already within the conversation. It is therefore not only strategic but necessary to engage with public discourse as active extensions of artistic practice. I use every available medium to bring my positions, and the problems I identify in contemporary society, to audiences who may have no interest in art as such, but who need to encounter these questions regardless.
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