Stefano Cagol (Italy)

The action returns as ritual in different locations, which are symbols of our obsession with resources, including Greenland, Kyrgyzstan, and Texas. Summoning seas of fog at his passage, and wielding sweet-smelling spray cans like firearms against the status quo, the artist appears - singular, estranged - moving through environmental thresholds. These aggressive gestures become symbols of the unrelenting human impact. He carries this weight as a form of exorcism, merging myth and shamanic spell. His deconstruction of heroism unfolds within an insular world - fragile yet universal - overwhelmed by rising waters and the erosion of society and memory. The work originates from the artist’s saga, We Are the Flood. And yet, from the inundations, a new way of existing together may still emerge.

Stefano Cagol (b. 1969) is an Italian contemporary artist and curator. He has participated in the 59th, 55th, and 54th Venice Biennale, the 3rd and 2nd Something Else – Off Biennale Cairo, Manifesta 11 in Zurich, the 14th Curitiba Biennale, the 1st Xinjiang Biennale, and the 1st Singapore Biennale.

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