Conversation with Kristina Borg and Elena Mazzi

On Tuesday, April 29 at 7 PM, a conversation with the artists-in-residence at Kamov – Kristina Borg and Elena Mazzi – will take place. The artists have spent April in Rijeka thanks to the Mediterranean Crossed residencies project, initiated by the Art Explora Foundation in collaboration with The Island Club organization.

The talk, held in English and moderated by Jelena Androić, will focus on experiences from residency programs, the Mediterranean as a space of transit, migration, and ecology, as well as its connections to the context of Rijeka. The artists will also share reflections on working with different types of communities and touch on their personal artistic interests.

The conversation will take place on the first floor of the museum, within the exhibition space of “Behind the Tide”, which also features Elena Mazzi with her work Upcoming Polar Silk Road (2021).

Kristina Borg was born in 1987 in Malta, where she lives and works. In her transdisciplinary research practice, she spends time integrating into specific multispecies communities and devotes her attention to the dialogue between such communities – human and more-than-human – and the place. Her work focuses on the co-creation of projects that are situation and context-specific, and involves diverse, experiential processes that relate to socio-political, economic, feminist and environmental issues in urban-collective spaces, ranging from a city to a supermarket, from a walkway by the sea to an agricultural field. Kristina’s work has been presented at numerous venues including: La Maternitat, Historical Archive of the Barcelona Provincial Council, Barcelona (2024), In-Situ Pendle, UK (2023), the European Horizon 2020 research and innovation project AMASS – Acting on the Margins: Arts as Social Sculpture, Centro Municipal de Arte Hélio Oiticica, Brazil (2019), Nieuwe Vide, The Netherlands (2017). She also received numerous awards and nominations, and most recently she was selected as a finalist for the New European Bauhaus Prizes 2023 with her project You Are What You Buy – Reap What You Sow.

Elena Mazzi (1984) is a visual artist working with specific geographical and socio-political contexts.

Her poetics deals with the relationship between human beings and their environment, with which they must reckon on a daily basis. This analysis, which often follows an anthropological approach, investigates and documents an identity which is at the same time personal and collective, and gives rise to various forms of exchange and transformation.

She studied History of Art (Siena), Visual Arts (IUAV, Venice) and Fine Arts (Royal Institute of Art, Stockholm). In 2015 she started running workshops for young artists, teachers and the general public in collaboration with institutions, schools, academies.

Elena Mazzi is presently pursuing a practice-based PHD at Villa Arson in Nice.

More:

https://www.kamov-residency.org/en/artists-in-residence/kristina-borg1

https://www.kamov-residency.org/en/artists-in-residence/elena-mazzi1

Foto: Elisa von Brockdorff i Francesca Cirilli