A versatile artist, Vinci’s experiments range from performance and installation to sculpture, design, writing, photography, video and sound art, addressing social, political and environmental issues of the present. His projects, often site specific, are strongly symbolic public actions, aimed at dissenting with collective issues and performing as a call to action to acquire new codes of civil behaviour. His research explores the subject of ‘multinaturalism’, a process in which the artist combines the human, animal, vegetable and mineral worlds, within a new morphological insight facing a new sustainable future.
For this exhibition, Vinci presents a new site-specific production Ecco una terra non ancora colonizzata dal potere (2022), specifically conceived for the Antiche Carceri - the Prize’s historical venue where the old prisons of San Vito used to be - and that gives the name to the public artwork project too. Vinci invites the visitor to interact with this rolling structure and activate its movement. It is a polygon-shaped sculpture - complete with a plume, a photo and sound installation - made of eighteen different monochromatic paint-filled drawings that, when moving, blend together and become all-white. Thus, by obscuring Pasolini's social and political actions as represented by the drawings, Vinci offers the audience the chance to write a new future.
Sasha Vinci’s project
Ecco una terra non ancora colonizzata dal potere
Sasha Vinci presents an installation for Piazza IV Novembre marked by poetic inspiration and political commitment, whose Italian title translates as ‘Here is a land not yet colonised by power’. The artist starts from Pasolini’s thoughts about the worker’s body - in fact the title is taken from a passage from Pasolini’s Saggi sulla politica e sulla società - and he then expands it, questioning the limits and the needs of people’s bodies in the present moment, in relation to social and economic systems. Vinci’s project consists of an installation in Corten steel divided into different elements: some stacked as composite elements, and others standing separate and ready to be inhabited or explored from the inside. Some shapes evoke the turtle’s shell - an old archetype recalling multiple meanings such as the maternal womb, solidity, wisdom and the celestial vault - while others evoke an octahedron or a dual polygon as symbols for air and mind, male and female, spiritual consciousness and life forces. The individual forms become a harmonic house for the voice to resound in or as a shelter in which to live and hide. This structure is intended as a playful setup that engages kids and adults alike to express themselves, to play and preserve their purity and freedom.
Sasha Vinci (Modica, 1980) lives and works between Scicli (Sicily) and Milan. He studied sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts of Florence and he’s currently working with the Milanese art gallery aA29 Project Room. He experiments with different languages in his artistic research - performance, sculpture, design, painting, writing, music - addressing existential issues. Each project is a civil action where art and creativity combine, an act that the artist defines as a “cultural performance” aimed at dissenting with the political and social issues of our time and acquiring new behavioral codes.
