Costanza Candeloro graduated in 2014 from the Haute école d’art et de design in Geneva (HEAD). The artist now lives and works in Paris.
Costanza Candeloro employs writing as a generative element and research subject. Using deconstruction as a tool of enquiry, texts newly written or appropriated are transformed into words, signs and symbols and then declined in the form of sculptures, installations and performances, evolving into a continuous process of formation. Through a praxis of intuitive cognitive assimilation, aimed at making the original content disappear, Candeloro favours compositional elements and gestures along with different types of representation, crafted in a unique artistic approach.
“If, on one hand, the cosmology of images and reflections activated by the artist is complex and articulated, on the other it can offer an analysis of collective themes that relate to our everyday life in an inclusive and transversal way. Starting from words, marks and symbols, the artist creates sculptures, videos, installations and performances, works that are both independent and also part of a unitary organic narrative.” [Chiara Nuzzi] ...
