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.