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May 30, 2025
From: Andrew Kreps GalleryThe gallery is pleased to announce the representation of artist Chiara Camoni
Over the past decade, Chiara Camoni has built a singular practice that connects the process of craft with the spiritual world. Employing materials traditionally associated with the domestic - ceramics, dyed fabrics, and loom-weaving, Camoni develops works in types, or series, which share a distinct visual language. Large-scale figures made from terracotta and adorned with intricate detail recall ancestral deities, while intimately scaled works referencing Egyptian canopic jars create a direct experience with the viewers. Hanging silks are dyed with vegetation, creating evocative images that reference the female form, while inviting chance into their process. Across Camoni’s practice, her works maintain a deep relationship to the place in which she works, utilizing natural materials gathered from the landscape surrounding her studio, and involving a broader community, often of women, to help realize her projects. Brought to life through collective means, and deeply connected to ritual rites and practices, Camoni’s works bring the spiritual languages of the past into a new history of the present.
The gallery will present a new series of works by Chiara Camoni at Art Basel 2025.
Chiara Camoni (b. 1974, Piacenza, IT), lives and works in Fabbiano (Lucca, IT), a mountain village on the Versilian coast in northern Tuscany. In 2024, Hangar Bicocca, Milan presented Call and Gather. Sister, Moths and Flame Twisters. Lioness Bones, Snakes and Stones, the most expansive exhibition of Camoni’s work to date. Her work was additionally the subject of several institutional solo shows that same year, which include: murmur, buzz, hiss and rub, Cample Line, Dumfriesshire, Scotland, UK; Inizio fine. Rotondo. Tutte le cose del mondo. Palazzo Collicola, Spoleto, IT. Other recent solo exhibitions include: Whispers, world above, world below, A Tail of A Tub, Rotterdam, NL (2023); La Meraviglia, CEAAC, Strasbourg, FR (2021); Deux Soeurs, CAPC, Musée d’art contemporain de Bordeaux, Bordeaux, FR (2021); Sisters, Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art, Middlesbrough, UK (2018) Camoni’s work is currently on view in Pollen, on view through January 31, 2027 at CAPC Musée d’art contemporain Bordeaux, FR. Recent group exhibitions include: Bangkok Art Biennale: Nurture Gaia, National Museum Bangkok, Bangkok, TH (2024); Manifesta 15, Barcelona Metropolitana, ES (2024); Colorescenze, Centro per l’arte contemporanea Luigi Pecci, Prato, IT (2024); Panorama, L’Aquila (2023); Into Nature: Time Horizons, Into Nature Biennial, Borger-Odoorn, NL (2023); Becoming Flower, MAMAC, Nice, FR (2022); Our Silver City, 2094, Nottingham Contemporary, Nottingham, UK, (2021); La Vie matérielle, La Centrale, Brussels, BE (2021); And the flowers too, Museo Orto Botanico, Roma, IT (2021); Life and Herstories (Autobiography as Dialogue), Chiara Camoni and Stefania Galegati, Villa Romana, Firenze, IT (2021); Officine Saffi Award, Officine Saffi, Milano, IT (2021); IO DICO IO, Galleria Nazionale di Arte Moderna, Roma, IT (2021); Fuori – La Quadriennale di Roma, Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Roma, IT (2020).
Her work is held in the permanent collections of IAC, Villeurbanne, France; Frac Bretagne, Rennes, France; GAM, Torino, Italy; MAMbo, Bologna, Italy; MACRO, Rome, Italy; MIMA Middlesbrough Institute of Contemporary Art, Middlesbrough, UK among others.
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