Maria Rapicavoli Imagination Fund Recipient — Installation Artist

Artist statement

My practice comes from a background in sculpture, photography, film, and video and has developed into social, interactive, site-specific installation and public projects. I investigate how such media can be configured to generate a space for critical discourse and social change. My work explores conditions of power, gender violence, migration, alienation, invisibility, and displacement through a critique of global socio-economic and political systems. Topics addressed include racial capitalism, imperialism, colonialism, and post-colonialism, diaspora, and enforced economic migration. I examine how artworks can critically engage in rising questions of political and social conditions that cause inequality, statelessness, and vulnerability. I work primarily with site-specific installations where different media can coexist, with an emphasis on traditional sculpture (stone hand carving and ceramics).