Laura Fiorio
Artist in Residence, Stockholm, 2 June–25 August 2025
Laura Fiorio (b.1985, Verona, Italy) is based between Berlin and Italy. She works with photography, installation and relational practice. Her projects interact with existing archives and materials, questioning the power dynamics embedded in the editing process of images as memories, their instutionalised use and hence their critical and subversive potential. Her artistic work uses the intimate power of personal objects to raise collective consciousness of political and sociological debates. The photographic image serves as the starting point for a research into the culture of memory, where she explores the documentary and staged character of the medium. Fiorio´s practice transforms this inherent tension of the photograph into transmedial interventions: spatially and temporally decontextualized site-specific and collaborative installations and performances.
Photo: Maria Vittoria Trovato
Laura Fiorio
Fiorio holds a BA in Performing and Visual Arts, IUAV, Venice; an MA in Film and Interactive Media, Middlesex University, London; and an MA in Art and Social Work, Alice Salomon Hochschule, Berlin. Her research on Difficult Heritage developed in the context of the Post-Master programme in Decolonizing Architecture at the Royal Institute of Art, Stockholm.
Her work has been exhibited, presented and published internationally, both independently and in collaboration with institutions such as the Triennale and Museum for Contemporary Photography, Milan, Italy; the Art and Architecture Biennale, Venice, Italy; the Centro Cultural de Tijuana, and the Goethe Institute, Mexico City, Mexico; Shanti Road, Bangalore, India; the European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights, House of the Cultures of the World, and Communal Galleries, Berlin, Germany. She has also presented work at the Centro Cultural ex Cartel, Valparaíso, Chile.
Fiorio has been guest professor at the Universidad de Baja California, Tijuana, Mexico, and University for Arts and Cultures, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, among others. Currently, she is a research fellow in Decolonizing Architecture at the Royal Institute of Arts in Stockholm.
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