Daniele Formica (Perugia, 1996) lives and works between Brussels and The Hague. Moving across drawing, text, painting, sculpture, performance and video, Formica's body of work reflects on the essence of transitory life and the living being dealing with it. Focusing on impermanence and poetry, the living being is portrayed in its escaping definitions departing from the transformation of the body-mind and its immediate surrounding.
Techniques and materials mix the domestic environment in the artist studio: painting, dancing, tailoring and video-recording are combined with memorabilia, furniture, clothing, domestic appliances and ephemera.
Using the body, its memories, streams of consciousness and fantasies, the work results in vanishing visions, handwritten visual poems and recognizable objects from direct contemplations, emotions or longed for, unattained and impossible desires placed in a soft ecstatic clash against the orders of reality.
Through the practice each piece enters in a conversation as a diary-like constellation and fragmented mapping of the artist own vulnerable, in-between and disarticulating thinking-body.
Daniele Formica’s practice could be described as cartographic, as he superimposes layer upon layer of cognitive, emotional, and ontological entanglements onto vulnerable mapping exercises that ultimately form a complex artistic atlas. In his work, oftentimes drawing from classical literature, language enunciates thought while tracing coordinates in his entropic mind. Words, as if entries on a diary, emerge from his vital experience and create linguistic rhythms of repetition and alternation wherein to gather and position fragmented identities and knowledges.
He received the Fine Arts Bachelor Award at the Koninklijke Academie van Beeldende Kunsten (KABK), The Hague, and he is currently doing a Master's in Fine Arts at Luca School of Arts, Brussels.