Adriana Gallo is an artist, independent researcher, and culinary practitioner based in New York with roots in Milan and the Northeastern US. Her practice deals with ecologies of labor, metabolic sublimes, dialectics of conviviality, and speculative production through installations, writing, workshops, lectures, and food.
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The installation is relational. It operates within more or less widely accepted art parameters, composed of objects or images intended to be read within a tradition of artistic production and material history. The installation might very well be materially unstable – rotting, growing, melting, shifting – but its meaning is its constitutive relations.
The text is contingent. It contributes in a way that material cannot. It reveals the nature and traces the architecture of its container. The text scaffolds and nourishes its material companions without constraining them. The written text as form is apparently stable while its contents and associations are mutable.
The workshop is transmission. It combines the didactic and the choreographic. The workshop is a process, mutually formed with participants and materials. Translation and reproduction become the implicit subjects, regardless of the skill demonstrated in the workshop.
The meal is representation. It employs and represents systems and traditions. It implicates the eater and the cook with a cosmology of other lives and agents. The meal exposes and reproduces the political and ecological whether the eater or cook likes it or not.
Goldsmiths, University of London, MA Art & Ecology 2025
Rhode Island School of Design, BFA 2015
2023 cohort of the Postnatural Independent Program.
Past member of Soft Surplus
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