ArP – Alessia R. Petrolito, 33
artist/writer

Ita***

Nata in Georgia, USA. Cresciuta in provincia di Torino. Diplomata in “Decorazione” all’Accademia Albertina di Belle Arti di Torino. Master in “Visual and Critical Studies” conseguito alla School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC). Il termine adoptic nasce nel 2015 per condividere alcuni aspetti visivo critici della mia adozione internazionale; per farlo i miei studi spaziano dalla teoria della percezione all’autoetnografia passando le arti visive.

Eng***

Born in Georgia, USA. Raised in Turin, Italy.  A BFA in Decorazione (2013) obtained from the Accademia Albertina di Belle Arti di Torino and a MA in Visual and Critical Studies (2016) at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC). The word adoptic was born in 2015 to address and share the visual and critical aspects of my international adoption; for, my studies range from the theory of perception to auto-ethnography through the visual arts.

CV / Résumé

ArtWorks + Texts

Topics of interest:

• Visual Activism
• Black Literature & Media
• Cultural Production & Narratives of Displacement
• Arts and Adoption
• Virtual communities

https://linktr.ee/arpadoptic

Representations:

• ExhibitionsTramanda, Imbiancheria del Vajro, Chieri-Torino
  • RAISIN, 6018North,  Chicago
  • 0.1% NAVEL, Los Angeles
  • Exhibitions at SAIC, Chicago
  • Making Out, Dfbrl8r, Chicago
•  Artist’s books at JFABC 
  • Reading Artists’ Books | Remembering Doro, video (2022)
• Publications
  • Rabbia & Desiderio / Rage & Desire – SPAZIO GRIOT – October 2022
  • Michaela Coel’s Misfits Is An Uplifting Manifesto – GRIOT Mag – 21 Feb 2022
  • An Italian Diary – Love & Literature – 24 Oct – Nov 14 2021
  • Poem from the Underworld – CRY Magazine – 27 September 2021
  • Evil Children – A Cornered Gurl – 5 March 2021
  • WIDE-AWAKE, DREAMER! – Intricate Intimacies – 6 December 2020
  • To Heavy too Fly – A Cornered Gurl – 20 November 2020
  • Loss – Creatures – 11 November 2020
  • My Cliff – A Cornered Gurl – 26 October 2020
  • Windowsill – A Cornered Gurl – 17 April 2020
  • Raven – A Cornered Gurl – 10 April 2020
• Photography
  • Der Grief / Guestroom selection by Johanne Affricot July 2020

Past projects:

 

 

 

BLACK BUT ITALIAN
05 16 16

 

 

CHEWING AMBIGUITY
2016

 

 

LIVING ADOPTIC
01 11 16

 

 

BLACK OR ITALIAN – (1) e (2)
10 01 15

 

 

BLACK American ITALIANS 
04 28 15

 

 

THE BREAKAGE OF THE RHYTHM
02 01 14

 

 

 

 

*HOME()HOUSE PROJECT
2014

Old Works – Portfolio

RobinFacesArt  – video / Blogspot

 

External Links:

ResearchGate

Behance

Linkedin

Medium

Der Grief