Personal contact: danieleformica96@gmail.com
Artist Statement, Daniele Formica, 2026
My “performative” work sits between enacting a philosophy of life=art and recursively confronting the tragicomic fabulous failure of this position. It focuses on dismembering the notion of self departing from my body, person and its extension trough property, interaction and experience.
Engaging the world without a fixed structure or transcendental system of understanding. Looking for incarnated ways and embracing the precarious confusion of the in-between.
It works with and against language, diving deeper into its illusions of meanings and definitions, looking for the life within its orders, at the thresholds between words and names, things and images, and the blurb that escape those.
All is constantly moving and takes different perspectives: painting, drawing, ready-made and installation, sculpture, performance and video-performance. Recently I come to re-present this ongoingness with the catchphrase “contracted dance and expanded painting”. Half minimizing the autonomous dispositif of dance observation, half enlarging the potential of what is a picture.
Yet performance is not limited to actual dance, but rather escapes the constrictions of a defined act to twist itself on representation: it becomes alteration of space, manipulation of presence and absence, suggestion of person, semblance and resemblance, relational transformation.
My self is my ongoing impossible project.
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Artist statement, Daniele Formica, previous
Moving across drawing, text, painting, sculpture, performance and video, Formica's body of work reflects on the essence of transitory life and the living being dealing with it. Focusing on impermanence and poetry, the living being is portrayed in its escaping definitions departing from the transformation of the body-mind and its immediate surrounding.
Techniques and materials mix the domestic environment in the artist studio: painting, dancing, tailoring and video-recording are combined with memorabilia, furniture, clothing, domestic appliances and ephemera.
Using the body, its memories, streams of consciousness and fantasies, the work results in vanishing visions, handwritten visual poems and recognizable objects from direct contemplations, emotions or longed for, unattained and impossible desires placed in a soft ecstatic clash against the orders of reality.
Through the practice each piece enters in a conversation as a diary-like constellation and fragmented mapping of the artist own vulnerable, in-between and disarticulating thinking-body.