Them Skinned
H18:00-20:00
“I Pomeriggi” series
H18:00-20:00
“I Pomeriggi” series
Them Skinned
The event is part of the series I Pomeriggi dedicated to the Fellows.
Curated by Eva Zornio (Fellow Roma Calling /Visual Arts, Performance)
Them Skinned brings together Eva Zornio and Eve Chariatte in an exploration of the body through two performances.
The event examines the regimes of perception that shape our relationship to the body — between listening and seeing, surface and depth, stillness and movement — reenacting them in order to gently shift them. In this sense, Them Skinned invites a collective presence in which sensations become a space of experience.
The two propositions meet in a shared attention to what circulates beneath the skin.
Implicitly, the event also questions the ways bodies are framed, interpreted, and exposed. It opens a space where the body can appear otherwise: not merely as an image, but as a living site of relation, memory, and transformation.
I Pomeriggi is a transdisciplinary series curated by the Fellows of Istituto Svizzero. Drawing on their ongoing research, Fellows in residence in Rome, Milan, and Palermo conceive events and initiatives presented within Istituto’s public programme, fostering dialogue between art, science, and research. The series embraces a range of formats, often involving external guests and partners, including conferences, seminars, performances, concerts, walks, and other activities.
Eva Zornio (she/her) was born in 1987 in Arlesheim, Switzerland. She lives and works in Geneva. After an initial course of study in biology, culminating in a Master’s degree in neuroscience, Eva Zornio turned to the visual arts. She holds a Bachelor’s degree in Film and a Master’s degree in Visual Arts from HEAD–Geneva. Her work explores living systems and the relational and narrative frameworks that shape us as human beings. Her installations, performances, sculptures, and videos are informed and formed by notions of embodiment, affect, fiction, and networks. Moving between institutions and independent spaces, she notably performed at Istituto Svizzero in Rome (2018). She has exhibited at the Fondation d’Entreprise Ricard (2019), Kunsthaus Langenthal (2019), and Forde (2018); in 2020 she took part in the City of Geneva Grants exhibition at the Centre d’Art Contemporain; she was nominated for the Swiss Art Awards in 2021; in 2022 she exhibited at Kunst Halle Sankt Gallen, was selected for the 2023 publication of Pro Helvetia’s Cahiers d’Artistes, and presented an eponymous performance at Löwenbräukunst Zurich. In 2024, she presented her first solo exhibition in Ticino at Spazio Lampo.
Eve Chariatte lives in Biel/Bienne and works in the field of dance and somatic practices as a dancer, choreographer, artist-researcher, and organizer of artistic residencies. At the heart of her practice lies the body and its fascia(inner connective tissus), serving as a starting point for practices, researches and creations in various environments, whether outdoors or in theatrical spaces. Currently she proposes NIGHT WALK in different contexts and festivals and Can you hold my hand for a while? is her current research project on dissection and the histories of bodily knowledges and perceptions.
Since 2022, Gregory Stauffer and Eve have been engaged in a shared artistic research project entitled MALVAUX – Center for movement research and explorations in the forest, located in Biel/Bienne (CH). They aim to contribute to the development of a field at the intersection of the arts, ecology, and society. She studied at SEAD in Salzburg and completed the EXERCE Master’s program in Montpellier.
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