ALBERTO SCODRO

My research is concentrated on the experience of space and matter.
I’m interested in the physical, psychological and cultural narratives of the resources around us and the possibility of short-circuiting these in my work. Time, transformations and process play a central role, along with the cultural relationships and physical interactions inherent in any kind of space.
My projects play with the idea of crossing between inside and outside (artificial/manmade, proximate/far) in relation to architecture and landscape. My material research takes as its basis the connection between human life, quotidian objects, time and space – even and especially as our understanding of these are shifting in the contemporary world.
My works have their own logic but they always begin with a context, and they exist mainly in the particularity of this context. I enjoy the alchemy of entropy, and I like to imagine my work in collaboration with natural elements like fire or water, temperature and the changing seasons.
Currently and in the past I have worked in mechanical installation, formal sculpture, drawing practice (with machines I built expressly for this purpose), architectures, performance, photography, video and public art.
Tension, pressure, weights, fusion, and crossings are the main formal techniques I employ to symbolically reset some of the cultural parameters shared by my own society in the form of efficiency, rationalism, and utilitarianism.
When I was young I remember two real passions: firstly, climbing trees and staying up there for a long time, and secondly, making holes in the garden. I think this is the vertical line along which my practice is situated. My work explains itself through invisible process, a narrative of materiality, or in a suspension of subject.