16.05.2025

Slaked in curved light

Performance, Reading, Lateral Roma

H18:00-21:00
Via Ferdinando Ughelli 28, Roma
“I Pomeriggi” series

Dates
16.05.2025
Location
Lateral Roma
Category
Performance, Reading
Information

H18:00-21:00
Via Ferdinando Ughelli 28, Roma
“I Pomeriggi” series

Free entrance

The event is part of the series I Pomeriggi dedicated to the Fellows.
Curated by Hunter Longe (Fellow Roma Calling / Visual Arts)

The event will be held in English and Italian at Lateral Roma, Via Ferdinando Ughelli 28, Roma

Please bring a valid ID in order to borrow the headphones provided for a full experience of the event.

 

Slaked in curved light is an event conceived in conjunction with the homonymous group exhibition organized by Hunter Longe at Lateral Roma. The title was taken from a poem written in the wake of a close friend’s passing. As such, the show traces the quiet agency of the dead, where ancient rites meet contemporary gestures in a strange archaeology of grief, memory, and material. Relics of the formerly-living—words, objects, fossils and gestures—resurface in the works of Andrea Mauti, Clovis Maillet, Hunter Longe, Ilare and a text written by Allison Grimaldi Donahue.

For the event, the artists will activate the exhibition with an introduction by Hunter Longe, readings by Allison Grimaldi Donahue and Clovis Maillet, and a performance by Andrea Mauti with composer and sound artist Filippo Lilli.

 

after you die
i trace my fingers
along the rock in the garden
breaking my stubby nails
as i pick apart the granite
in search of the
                      ruby

Allison Grimaldi Donahue, Body to Mineral, Publication Studio Vancouver, 2016

Allison Grimaldi Donahue (1984, Connecticut, USA) is the author of Body to Mineral (Publication Studio Vancouver, 2016) and the co-author of On Endings (Delere Press, 2019). She is translator of Carla Lonzi’s Self-portrait (Divided, 2021) and Blown Away (Fomite, 2021) by vito m. bonito. Her writing and translations have appeared in places like Flash Art, NERO, The Brooklyn Rail, Words Without Borders, Prairie Schooner, BOMB, Evergreen Journal, Mousse and Tripwire, and she has recently performed at Guggenheim Venice, Kunsthalle Bern, Cabaret Voltaire, MACRO, MAMbo and Short Theatre Rome. Together with Giada Olivotto she curates Bambine, an annual translation residency around the work of Swiss Italian author Alice Ceresa at Sonnenstube, Lugano. From 2021-2022 she was a resident at the Sommerakademie Paul Klee in Bern. She holds a PhD in Philosophy from European Graduate School and teaches literature and gender studies at Spring Hill College Italy Center. She lives in Bologna.

Ilare (1994) is an artist based in Rome. They hold a Master’s degree in New Languages of Art from the Academy of Fine Arts in Rome and also participated in an exchange program at the Escola Massana in Barcelona. Their work has been exhibited in institutions such as RAVE East Village Artist Residency, Trivignano Udinese (2024); Spaziomensa, Rome (2024); Roma Smistamento, Rome (2023); MAD – Murate Art District, Florence (2023); Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome (2022); Istituto Centrale per il Restauro, Rome (2022); and AAL’S Experimental Space PILOT, Riga (2021). Since 2024, they have been a resident of the artist-run space Porto Simpatica in Rome. They have also been collaborating with WPS Multimedia, an artistic research lab specializing in audiovisual design, video installations, and museum itineraries, since 2018.

Filippo Lilli is a composer, sound artist, and sound designer. His hybrid training in performing arts and sound disciplines has allowed him to develop an interest in research directed towards listening and interpreting sound content, understood as a vehicle for alternative and additional storytelling. By combining and merging his various technical and musical skills, he maintains an extremely experimental exploration of sound. He collaborates with contemporary music ensembles, theater, and dance companies in the role of composer and sound project manager. In 2016, he founded POLISONUM, a Sound-Art collective that uses sound as a method and device for artistic investigation. Since 2023, he has been curating the research music series ‘DEI SUONI’.

Hunter Longe (1985, California) and lives and works in Geneva. He is a current resident at the Istituto Svizzero in Rome. He has a Bachelor of Fine Arts from California College of the Arts, San Francisco, and a Master of Fine Arts from Piet Zwart Institute Rotterdam. Recent group and solo exhibitions have been at 427, Riga (2024); Centre d’art de Neuchâtel (2024); Soft Opening, London (2024); Kunsthaus Langenthal (2023), Last Tango, Zurich (2023); Sonnenstube, Lugano (2023); Espace 3353, Geneva (2023); Istituto Svizzero, Rome (2022); Krone Couronne, Biel/Bienne (2022); Centre d’Art Contemporain Genève (2021); Musée Cantonal de Géologie, Lausanne (2019); NoMoon, New York (2019); Et al. Gallery, San Francisco (2018); LambdaLambdaLambda, Pristina (2017); Hordaland Kunstsenter, Bergen (2017). In 2021, a book of his writing and drawings entitled DreamOre was published by Coda Press and he was a winner of the Swiss Art Awards.

Clovis Maillet (1981, he/they) lives and works between Paris, Rome and Geneva. Clovis Maillet is a historian and artist, lecturer at the Geneva University of Art and Design, and fellow at Villa Medici 2024-2025.  As an artist, his work with Louise Hervé are held in public collections (FNAC, FRAC MECA, FRAC Lorraine, etc), their solo shows include : Le Credac, Centre (Ivry), Kunsthaus Glarus, et Kunsthal Aarhus, group show include : Vancouver Contemporary Art Gallery,  Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Nouveau Musée de Monaco. He is the author of La parenté hagiographique XIIIe-XVe s., 2014, Les Genres Fluides, de Jeanne d’arc aux saintes trans, 2020, Un Moyen âge émancipateur (with Thomas Golsenne), 2021, Ecotransféminismes (with Emma Bigé), 2025. He co-wrote and performed in Medieval Crack (Belluard Bollwerk, Fribourg, ADC, Genève, 2023).

Andrea Mauti (1999, he/they) lives and works in Rome, Italy. Graduated in Fine Arts – Painting, at the Academy of Fine Arts in Rome in 2022 (Bachelor), following an exchange program at the Akademie der Bildenden Künste München. His recent and upcoming exhibitions include: (Upcoming) 29th May at BSR British School in Rome (2025). In The Sight of a Man, Hong Kong (2025), Solo exhibition « ÆND », at the ADA Rome gallery (2023/2024); The Milky Way 7, curated by Damiana Leoni, Galleria Continua – San Gimignano (2025); Group show BIG BANG! Basement Roma Studio, CURA, Rome (2023); Post Energy – Visions from the future, curated by Spazio Taverna, Gazometro, Rome (IT) (2023); Collective #2 Monitor, Pereto, Rome, Lisbon (2022); Scoppio Terzo, Terni (2022); sublimation_simulation, ADA, Rome (2022), Masters Salon’s paintings, in collaboration with European Academies of Fine Arts (2021), Hétérotopie, edited by Edoardo Monti Bubble’n’Squeak, Brussels (2021), Selected in the first edition of the Degree Show, at Palazzo Monti, Brescia (2020), INSIEME, curated by Gianni Politi, Via di Porta Labicana, Rome (2020). Awarded by the Francesco Fabbri Foundation, in the « Emerging Art » section for the 2023 edition, with the work Untitled (2022). In 2023 they were selected for the New Grand Tour 2023 residency project, at the Cité International des Arts de Paris.