Português
1985, lives and works at Dolo, Italy
Graduated in Visual Arts and Environmental Engineering, Alessio Mazzaro (Dolo, Italy, 1985) is artist and performer interested in participatory art practiced as a way to create frameworks for less hierarchical forms of knowledge production, listening practices and what we can achieve through linguistic interaction. His projects manifest unconventional forms of hospitality where different lived experiences of the same event can be expressed and coexist. Installations, publications and collective performances that use sound, conversation, recorded voice and scenic elements, create complex and atypical narratives, beyond geographical boundaries and stereotypes.
Mazzaro is a recipient of the Italian Council X, and previously of the ECF Courageous Citizens Research Grant and the prize Incontri Internazionali d’Arte. Artist in residence at the Cité internationale des Arts (Paris) and Residencia Artistica Faap (São Paulo) he collaborated with the Center for Global Migration Studies and the Max Plack Institute for Ethnic and Religious Diversity (Göttingen). His work has been presented in personal projects, group exhibitions and dialogues at Muntpunt, Recyclart, Zsenne and Galerie Felix Frachon (Brussels); La Colonie and the Galerie de la Cité internationale des arts (Paris); H2/61.26 (Casablanca); Studio RCA, LADA: Live Arts Development Agency, Tate Modern within Tate Exchange (London); Eastern Bloc, Musée du Montréal Juif and the Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue (Montreal); Electric Eclectics Festival 2015; Popps Packing (Detroit); Spike Island Open Studios (Bristol); SuperNormal 2016; Fondazione Francesco Fabbri Prize for Contemporary Art; CampoBase (Turin) and Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa (Venice).
From 2015 to 2020 he worked on a trilogy on Jewish migration from Morocco to Paris and Montreal, of which Théo-Mario Coppola curated the online exhibition in 2021 and the Italian Cultural Institute of Montreal organized the round table “De l’Histoire aux histoires”.
The artist’s participation in Pivô Research 2022 is supported by the Italian Council, Directorate-General for Contemporary Creativity, Italian Ministry of Culture.
