Building a bridge between the camera apparatus and the current socioeconomic system, Viacava’s practice dwells on concepts such as the
alienation of the worker and the performativity of the photographic medium. The photographs play with the dichotomy of labour and stillness
where the concurrent anxiety derived by the necessity of producing in late capitalism are contrasted by the quietness and uselessness of
resting objects and structures.
alienation of the worker and the performativity of the photographic medium. The photographs play with the dichotomy of labour and stillness
where the concurrent anxiety derived by the necessity of producing in late capitalism are contrasted by the quietness and uselessness of
resting objects and structures.
Bio
1993 - Milan
Currently based in London
Education
2018/2020 - Royal College of Art, MA Photography
2014/2017 - Middlesex University, BA Photography
Selected Exhibitions
2020 - How To Do Nothing, Window 187, Trafalgar Road, London, UK
2019 - Everything The Same // Everything a Little Different, The Art Academy, London, UK
2019 - Offprint Bookfair, Tate Modern, London, UK
2019 - Next Big Thing, Inanimate Objects, Showcase Regent Street, London, UK
2019 - Stato di Agitazione, Tipografia Alimentare, Milan, IT
2019 - Give Photography a Chance, Ma.Co.f Centro della Fotografia Italiana, Brescia, IT
2019 - Work in Progress, Royal College of Art, London, UK
2018 - Family of No Man, Les Rencontres d'Arles, FR
2018 - One Year Revolv, Safe House 1, London, UK
2018 - From Top to Bottom, The Pupil Sphere, Leeds, UK
2018 - From Top to Bottom, The Pupil Sphere, Glasgow, UK
2017 - XYZ Project, Ashfield Road, London, UK
2017 - D&AD New Blood, Old Truman Brewery, London, UK
2017 - FREE RANGE Photography Week One, Old Truman Brewery, London, UK
2017 - Connected, Old Truman Brewery, London, UK
2016 - Identity, Four Corners Gallery, London, UK
Talks
2020 - Strange Halves: Week Two / In Conversation with Sara Fiorino & Sophie Gladstone
Writing
2019 - Photomonitor: Anthony Prothero's Ipseity review
Experience
2019 - Robert Freeman's Archivist, London
2017/2018 - Front of House Volounteer, Camden Arts Centre, London
2016/2017 - Student Learning Assistant, Middlesex University, London
Publications
2019 - The Tool & The Eye with James Wilde (self-published)
2017 - British Journal of Photography
2017 - Lupe Magazine, Issue V
2016 - Lupe Magazine, Issue IV
Press
A New Nothing: In Conversation with Anthony Prothero
Humble Arts Foundation: Group Show 61
Intimate Structures by Tique Art
The Pupil Sphere
Revolv Collective
British Journal of Photography
Lost Then Found