CLARRISSA FALCO

Residents of November 2021

Born in 1995 her art focuses on the woman body and her social status. After her Bachelor Degree in Fine Arts she is taking the Master Degree in Visual Art and Curatorial Studies at The New Fine Art Academy of Milan (NABA), where she currently lives.

She was one of the artists in the exhibition Incontro #11 What about the materiality of the body? At Pini Foundation in Milan. She also worked as set up assistant for the work Aral Citytellers by Francesco Jodice at the Yinchuan Biennal curated by Marco Scotini.

Clarissa was one of the curators of the FOOD FOR COMMONS, FOOD FOR LIFE workshop for the Architecture Biennale of 2018 at the swamp school. During Artissima 2018 Clarissa was at DAF Structure and in 2019 she participated at Every Letter is a Love Letter exhibition curated by Alessandra Poggianti and Elvira Vannini at the Terzopiano gallery in Lucca. After the lockdown, she was one of the artists present in the We Can Work It Out exhibition at the Renata Fabbri gallery in Milan.

Clarrissa Falco accommodated a performative act based on the movements of the Taranta dance and created the project TEMPLUM developed in two parts: an installation “webcobs” made of thread and lace will grow and a performance based on the industriousness of the spider, along with the great technical precision that the animal shows in weaving its web. Clarissa led into thinking how the weaving work of the spider could be compared to the female work. As with the phenomenon of Tarantismo, our bodies become vessels that intertwine  in a creation able to give life to collaborative and interspecies practices and able to participate to a gender narrative that wants to reinforce new ways of proposing futures. In this sense, the mutation plays the role of the driving force where the knots produce entities that stay together, that develop, communicate and create stratified textiles, like spiders do.