PROFILE

Ciriaca Erre’s work is a radical act: transforming life itself into a work of art.
Moving between philosophy, anthropology, action and spirituality, she turns each step into a liminal experience suspended between the visible and the invisible, presence and absence.

In 2022 the artist embarked on a journey lasting two years, two months and two days, crossing five continents. Her body in motion became a living manifesto for peace and for the planet: from utopian communities to Indigenous communities of the Amazon rainforest, to Japan on the 78th anniversary of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and to the radioactive areas of Fukushima. The journey also took her to a remote village in China, where she encountered the last matriarchal community in the world.

Throughout this journey she seeks ancestral knowledge and encounters living utopias: communities experimenting with more sustainable and peaceful ways of inhabiting the planet.

Her artistic practice explores limits, fears and life itself, intertwining visual research with acts of poetic civil disobedience. She has lived with Japanese Buddhist monks, documented the last witches in Africa, filmed Tibetan monks in prison, and denounced human rights violations within Italian prisons.

Art becomes resistance and revelation in her performances: 366 hours of silence, the offering of the self, and the relinquishing of material possessions as acts of creation.

“I look at the human microcosm as a paradox of the macrocosm.”

Nomadism continues to embody her artistic practice, where art and life converge and existence itself becomes the space of the work.

Awards and accolades: winner / Bally artist Award (CH) (2019), finalist / Mostyn Visual Arts Centre / Wales (UK) (2015), special mention / Premio Terna (IT) (2010), finalist / Premio Cairo (IT) (2001).
Exhibitions: Mostyn Visual Arts Centre / Wales- UK (2015), Buchmann galerie/Lugano (2014) Tibetan Pavilion, parallel event at the 55° Venice Biennale / Venice (2013). MAMM - Multimedia Art Museum / Moscow (2012), Museo Macro Testaccio / Rome (2012), Permanente Museum / Milan (2012) International photo Festival, Musei Civici /Reggio Emilia (2012), Italian Cultural Institute /Los Angeles (2011), Palazzo Collicola / Spoleto (2011), Palazzo Bagatti Valsecchi / Milan (2010), Stelline foundation (2005)/ Milan, Italian Cultural Institute /Berlin (2005).