Francesco Simeti with his work in Civita di Bagnoreggio. Photo by Piotr Niepsuj.
Installation views of Refugium. Photos by Dario Lasagni, courtesy of Assembly Room.
- I’ve always had this thing for hiding things, making you look for them.
'Watching the War', an installation for the 'Officina America' project at Villa delle Rose in Bologna, 2002.
Wallpaper detail- For me wallpaper is a metaphor for something that surrounds us everyday but that we don’t really focus on.
Installation view of 'Arabian Nights' at RISD museum, 2003.
Wallpaper detail
Background detail- What I do is sort of ‘trick’ the viewer into leaning in and once you see it up close you can’t look away that easily.
Installation view of 'Swell' at Open Source, 2017.
Sludgie the whale- At one point, I noticed a similarity between industrial structures and amusement parks, which also serve as a metaphor for how we are behaving towards the environment. Lightly, as if it were a game.
The Bensonhurst subway station
The Bensonhurst subway station