ABOUT - MATTEO DE CAMINADA
MATTEO DE CAMINADA (he) born 2001 in Italy, is an interdisciplinary artist, performer, curator and activist. His practice connects 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. Deeply embedded in communities across Europe, De Caminada holds a distinctive place as both insider and cultural translator, moving between lived experience and public platform.
As an activist and speaker, he moves between subcultural communities and public platforms, translating lived experience into artistic and political discourse.
De Caminada is currently enrolled in the Department of Transdisciplinary Arts (TransArts) at the University of Applied Arts Vienna (Die Angewandte). Previously trained in Architecture and Fine Arts, his practice has been shaped by a life lived across different European contexts, from Bolzano to London, Leipzig, and Vienna, where he currently lives and works.
ARTIST STATEMENT
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.
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CONTACT FORM
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