Born in 1997 in Palermo (Italy), works and lives between Baucina and Venice.
Is it possible to represent a memory lapse? How can we materialize amnesia, the absence of knowledge? With a sculptural practice influenced by the fields of design and architecture, Giuseppe Lo Cascio initiates an answer to these daunting existential questions and reopens the dialogue on the great themes of memory, knowledge and their inseparability from power dynamics. Sculpture takes on a metaphorical role: the solids and voids of matter reflect the known and the forgotten. Giuseppe Lo Cascio develops a visual language to express the impossibility for the edifice of memory to be eternally preserved. Highlighting the precariousness of the knowledge structures we interact with on a daily basis reveals the intrinsic instability of the individual. Fake filing cabinets, sorters with hundreds of empty files, sealed office furniture and other inane, defunctionalized objects are part of a semantic reconfiguration in which dysfunction produces a symbolic void. During his residency, Giuseppe Lo Cascio wishes to enter into a dialogue with the territory and its population, working from the urban structure of Clermont-Ferrand, its morphology, in resonance with an industrial history and imaginary that are familiar to him.
Final event, Wednesday 18 of December, 2024, 6.30PM
at la Diode, 190 bd Gustave Flaubert à Clermont-Ferrand
The dune is often associated with the desert, a landscape in constant transformation, symbolizing solitude, waiting, and change. Though the dune may appear monolithic and uniform, it is in motion and hides subtle details. The holes within it could be seen as small ruptures, interruptions, or openings in an otherwise continuous and homogeneous reality. It is in these temporary gaps that we may search for meanings, aware that even these will change along with the dune.
During this artist residency in Clermont-Ferrand, Giuseppe Lo Cascio explored an unusual connection between two distant and opposite places: Clermont-Ferrand and Baucina (Palerme, Italia), The former is home to the Michelin factories, the latter to B.R.T., a tire recycling facility. In addition to this industrial activity, which has had a significant impact on the urban planning of both towns, they also find a link in his work, through memories and visual associations.
Among the houses of Rue du Courage and Rue de la Volonté, he observed how the uniform projects imposed by those who shaped the landscape ultimately failed, as they were influenced by the changing will of individuals. The architecture of the workers' districts of theformer Michelin factory shows buildings where only the core remains unchanged, while everything around it reveals the constant passage of time and the human desire to stamp our presence on our environment.
The result of this work is a dual sculpture and a visual diary made of images, comparisons, drawings, and titles that reflect on the shifting concepts of the double and the identical – ideas that memory and the creative process challenge in our understanding of the world.