2023 - ANGELO MADONNA

‘Here to Become’(2023)

is an Independents Biennial event responding to the theme of the 2023 Liverpool Biennial ‘uMoya: The Sacred Return of Lost Things’ whose theme addresses the history and temperament of our city and its call for ancestral forms of knowledge, wisdom and healing.

‘Falling diamonds are dancing on hot plates’ (2023)

Above: Still frame from video installation

‘Puddles’ (2023)

This new work came to exist after few water’s experiments that the artist realized in his studio at Bridewell. His fascination on exposing opposite elements together, in this case water and heat or water and air, create an emergency dancing or invisible performance through the medium itself. A dance that will sadly end when the water will be reduced to steam or when water will vaporize in the air. In this specific work, the artist wants the audience to think of us as human beings and our live existence depending on the climate mutation, an opportunity to understand at last where we – inhabitants of the earth – live, what is our function here and how to orient ourselves and exist in this world in the years to come.

‘Bod_j_ect’: Conversations and songs’

Above: Performing Bod_j_ect: conversations and songs

Above: Performing Bod_j_ect: conversations and songs

Artist in conversation with Liverpool Biennial's Curator -Khanyisile Mbongwa

above: poster of the exhibition

This show stems from our shared connection to processes, questions and uncertainty, rather than a didactic of end-results and answers. Our artists look at change as a condition of life – as an infinite process of becoming, and we challenge the imposed addiction towards the new that neoliberal ontologies have impressed on our consciousness.

Emotional Minimalism - A series of minimal actions translated into performances, exhibitions, film and sound installations, exploring the affective relationships between: Materials, Objects, Humans and non-humans entities in different spaces and condition that will trigger different emotions. A concept that will enable the artists to create meaning from materials and from the places and spaces we inhabit.