Giulio Squillacciotti

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Giulio Squillacciotti (Rome, Italy 1982)
Born Rome (I) 1982. Artist, film-maker and researcher lives and works in Milan (I) and Maastricht (NL). He studied Medieval Art History in Barcelona and Rome, where he earned a BA hons in Humanities from La Sapienza University. He owns a MA hons in Visual Arts from the Venice University of Architecture IUAV, where he studied Art, Philosophy, Semiotics and Anthropology. In 2010 he was recipient of the FAR Advanced Course in Visual Arts with Walid Raad. In 2018/2019 he is Jan Van Eyck Academie Fellow in Maastricht (NL). His work is mainly oriented on storytelling, cultural apexes and the way traditions re-shape in new contexts. His research merges together fiction and historical facts. Using film, documentary, sound and performance, Squillacciotti produces research-based investigations that revisits History, crafting new stories from subjective perspectives, storytelling, religion and popular culture. He recently completed a feature documentary film shot in the south of Iran on Possession Rituals of African origin in the Persian Gulf.

His work has been exhibited and screened internationally at, among the others, Les Rencontres Internationales at Centre Pompidou, Palais de Tokyo and Gayte Lyrique in Paris (F), at The Cinefamily of Los Angeles (USA), at the Berlin Haus der Kultur der Welt and Neues Museum in Weimar (D), Screen Space in Melbourne (AU), the Manifesta 8 in Murcia (E), Le Magasin CNAC in Grenoble (F), AKV of Den Bosch (NL), Istanbul 2010 European Capital of Culture (TR), the Beirut Art Centre in Lebanon (RL), the New York Photo Festival, Dumbo Video and the Columbia University in New York City (USA), Art Institute of Boston (USA), OCAT in Shanghai (PRC); in Italy at PAC, Triennale and ViaFarini in Milan, MACRO, MAXXI and 16th Quadriennale of Rome, the Sandretto Re Rebaudengo in Turin and at Official Competition of the 33rd and 35th Torino Film Festival. He has written for Visual Ethnography, Domus, Paesaggio, VICE and Shopping Hour.

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