Artist Talk – Flaminia Celata
Free to attend – book your place here
Presented in collaboration with Screen South, Living Words and Normal? Festival of the Brain
Please join us for an artist talk by Italian artist Flaminia Celata, which will mark the beginning of her artist residency with Screen South during June. She will be working together with people from Folkestone and the surrounding area to develop an exciting project on neuroplasticity and gender: The Boundaries Are Eminently Porous.
For the talk, Flaminia Celata will give a short presentation of her recent projects: IO sono memoria (I am memory), about the human memory functions and memory loss, and APUA, a collaborative project, with the German artist Bärbel Praun, about the Carrara marble quarries in Norther Italy (recently prominently featured in Brady Corbet’s The Brutalist).
About the residency:
Over a month, through a series of workshops called The Plastic Lab, Flaminia will explore the theme of neuroplasticity together with people from the LBGTQIA+ community who have ‘come out’ later in life. During the residency Flaminia will also work with a group of older people, including people with lived experience of dementia and their carers, for a workshop series called The Memory Palace. The residency will culminate in a showcase on 27 June.
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All are welcome to attend the talk. There will be an opportunity for a drink and informal conversation following the presentation.
The event is free to attend but please book with the link above
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About the artist:
Flaminia Celata is a visual artist based in Rome. She mainly works on long term projects, using photography and video. She has recently adopted a more transdisciplinary approach to research, encompassing sculpture and performance.
Flaminia’s practice involves a long and intense analytical research process. She describes her work as arising from a curiosity that becomes obsessive over time; curiosity about an event or topic that she generally has experience of.
Since 2020 she has collaborated with the German artist Bärbel Praun.
She is the winner of Strategia Fotografia 2024 with the project The Boundaries are Eminently Porous promoted by the Italian Ministry of Culture.
Flaminia has exhibited nationally and internationally among others Les Boutographies Festival in Marseille (2017, FR), LIF Audio Visual Art Festival at Sikinos (2018, GR), Loading Festival in Porto (2019, PT), and Art and Neuroscience Festival (DE, 2020), Curva Pura Gallery, Rome (2021 IT), Biennal of contemporary art in Vila Nova de Cerveira (2023-2024 PT), Frappant Gallery, Hamburg (2023, GE), Maus Hábitos, Porto (2024 PRT) Biennale dello Stretto (IT) 2024.
Background Details
Screen South and Living Words will support Flaminia as she works with local communities to explore notions of memory and LGBTQIA+ late blooming. A working showcase of the Residency will take place on Friday 27 June at the Screen South Digital Hub from 6pm
Normal? Festival of the Brain is focussing on Labs across 2025, culminating in hosting 10 Cambridge University neuroscientists in Folkestone, on 9 August 2025.This residency builds on Screen South and Living Words ongoing collaboration since 2021.
The project is supported by Strategia Fotografia 2024, promoted by the Directorate-General for Contemporary Creativity of the Italian Ministry of Culture.
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