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" I studied for six years at the Ecole Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de l'Île de la Reunion. As soon as I graduated, I started my personal project on the notion of the body through the psychosomatics of mankind and phobias, the body in space. During the two years of the master's degree, I wanted to develop the subject of trauma and complexes, also focusing on the memory and the memory of the body. So I invited dance, as a personal history.

I have always remained open to all disciplines, but I admit to having fallen in love with sculpture and to having been surprised by performance art, as for textiles, they remain a common thread.

This year, I started a project called "Ecriture Chorégraphique" and I will develop its possibilities as a collection. My relationship with materials is instinctive, I only choose fabrics/textures by touching them. My hands are my real eyes."

Aya Bseiso (b. Tunis, 1995) holds a degree in Community, Environment and Development from Pennsylvania State University. Her practice is research based relying on text and sampling of archival material. Bseiso at the moment is currently interested in initiating projects that look at landscapes and geography probing possible life futures. She seeks to experiment with mediums that allow her to engage, build relationships, and embed oneself in distant ecosystems—traveling between and traversing borders—on multiple levels.

Reem Marji is an architect and curator. She holds a master's degree in curatorial practices and cultural studies from the European Institute of Design – Venice. She has worked as part of Darat al Funun - Khaled Shoman Foundation’s curatorial team. She recently participated in the curation of "After Hours"; an artistic residency program that explores the possibilities or limitations of cultural institutions, in addition to the co-curation of the exhibition trilogy ; “The Internet of Things: Another Possible World,” “Measuring Life: Notes toward Impossible Exchange,” and “Postcolonial Ecologies.” Marji is interested in artistic and cultural production and its intersection with the current economic and political.

Federica Zianni achieved her Master of Arts in Sculpture at the Brera Fine Arts Academy, where she is appointed Professor of Foundry Technique in 2022. Since 2018 she participated in art awards of international relevance (Combat Prize, the Vittorio Viviani Prize, the Comel Prize, the Artrooms Award, the Malamegi LAB15 Art Prize, the Weir Gabbioneta Award the Mellone Prize, the Fregellae Sculpture Prize) and she exhibited at the GIFA (International Foundry Trade Fair) in Düsseldorf.

In 2021 she wins the We Art Open prize lunched by No Title Gallery. Among the finalists for the Cramum Prize and the Exibart Prize, the selected work was included in a volume published by Exibart Edizioni. Furthermore, she is a finalist at the Mediterranean Contemporary Art Prize, at the Fregellae Prize and at the Artkeys Prize. She is among the finalist artists at the Vir Viafarini-in-residence and at the art residency In-Edita 2, project coordinated by Galerie Alberta Pane, Ikona Venezia and Marina Bastianello Gallery.

In 2022, not only she exhibits her artworks in a solo show at Manuel Zoia Gallery in Milan, but her first monograph, by Vanillaedizioni, is out for publishing. She is also awarded the Arte Laguna 16 Special Prize, inviting her to participate in an art residency at Fonderia Artistica Versiliese. Finalist for the Premio Arte published by Cairo Editore, whose exhibition is going to take place at the Royal Palace in Milan, and is listed finalist for the Exibart Prize.

Teresa Antignani (1991) graduated in painting at Brera with Alberto Garutti and continued her studies in sociology in Rome. She lives and works between Milan and the province of Caserta focusing on socio-political themes.

She is an eclectic artist, using various means of expression ranging from collage, to the assemblage of discarded materials, to large narrative pictorial cycles in which there is always a reference to the sacred and to the tragic nature typical of certain cultural expressions of southern Italy.

Martyrion is her latest performative and photographic project with the photographer Sara Terracciano. Through activism and protest in defense of the territory, Teresa is recounting the environmental havoc and biocidal abuses in Campania.

Sara Terracciano (1990) moved to Naples in 2016 where she completed her two-year specialist degree in photography and began her first long-term project in the Rione Sanità: InSanity Faire.

She learned to recognize light by photographing the bodies of women in the neighborhood. Over time her work has taken shape, looking for in an 'image the ability to invite self-telling.

From 2019, in parallel to her personal projects, she began working as a set photographer in film, performance and theater.

In 2020 she began the project Martyrion together with artist Teresa Antignani, photographing industrial realities in relation to the female body.