Past Residents
Patrick Tuttofuoco
Patrick Tuttofuoco creates innovative imagined structures, architectural assemblages, films and animations motivated by the urban environment as a site of constant transformation. The use of light and movement characterize Tuttofuoco’s works, which combine immediate sensorial allure with the power to trigger profound theoretical responses. Frequently working in collaboration, Tuttofuoco’s diverse artistic practice seeks to forge new dialogues between public and private, between individuals and the environment they inhabit. Operating on an open, communicative level his works explore architecture as the product of the energy and combined efforts of the people who constructed and live in it, as a human energy that lives through its functionality.
Patrick Tuttofuoco (born 1974, Milan, Italy) lives and works in Berlin and has shown extensively internationally, in both solo and group shows. Recent exhibitions of the artist’s work include: Things are queer, MARTa Herford, Germany; Hundred Stories about Love, 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Japan; Italics: Italian Art Between Tradition and Revolution 1968-2008, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, and Palazzo Grassi, Venice; TURN ON: Contemporary Italian Art, Art Gallery of Hamilton, Ontario; 10th Havana Biennial: Integration and Resistance in the Global Age; Dandelion, Kunstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin; 50th Venice Biennial; Folkestone Triennial,
England; Musée d’Art Contemporain de Nimes, France; Shanghai Biennale; and Revolving Landscape, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin.
Patrick Tuttofuoco, First Person Plural, 2009.
Patrick Tuttofuoco, Mirrors and Windows (Christine), 2009, Plastic, wool, resin, wood, cardboard and steel mesh , 32 × 40 × 75 in. (81.28 × 101.6 × 190.5 cm). Courtesy of the artist.
Patrick Tuttofuoco, Those Ghosts (David Copperfield), 2011, Coated MDF, perspex, spray paint, fabric, resin, 60 × 32 × 63 in. (152.4 × 81.28 × 160.02 cm). Courtesy of the artist.
Patrick Tuttofuoco, Three Wise Monkeys, 2010, Fabric, wool, resin and spray color, 13 × 15 × 118 in. (33.02 × 38.1 × 299.72 cm). Courtesy of the artist.
Patrick Tuttofuoco, Janus, 2011 , Printed forex, steel tubes, colored water and acrylic paint , 200 × 90 × 210 in. (508 × 228.6 × 533.4 cm). Courtesy of the artist.
Residents from Italy
Past Resident2012: Paradise Row
Eloise Fornieles
Eloise Fornieles’ practice is predominantly performance-based. Focusing on one-to-one interventions within installations and soundscapes, she invites audiences to question simple interactions and gestures – from the intimate and profound to the prosaic and banal. This investigation into personal human connections is framed within a broader overview of the relationship between body and environment, and the individual’s place as part of a much larger system. Fornieles’ installations create a space for contemplation, whilst her own emphasis on physical endurance provides a backdrop for a more visceral understanding of the body as material, with its limitations and its capabilities. Engaging with strands of mythology, ritual and storytelling, and often depicting animals, she teases out the symbolic resonances that hold meaning within our everyday interactions.
Eloise Fornieles (born 1980, Winchester, UK) has worked and lived in London since 2004. After a BA in Fine Art at Kingston University, London, Fornieles graduated from the Slade School of Fine Art in 2006 with an MFA in Fine Art Media. Selected exhibitions include Their Wonderlands, Midlands Art Centre, Birmingham; On and On, La Casa Encendida, Madrid; Natural Wonders: New Art from London, Babakov Art Projects, Moscow; Fashion in Film Festival, Tate Modern, London; Carrion, Haunch of Venison, Berlin; and The Body is an Ocean, Paradise Row, London, 2011.
Eloise Fornieles, Celestial Body, 2010, Installation performance. Courtesy of the artist.
Eloise Fornieles, Carrion, 2008, Installation performance. Courtesy of the artist.
Eloise Fornieles, Wanderlust I, 2009, Performance. Courtesy of the artist.
Eloise Fornieles, The Body is an Ocean, 2011, C-type print, 8 × 51/2 in. (20.32 × 13.97 cm). Courtesy of the artist.
Eloise Fornieles, Conchita I, 2011, Cotton rag paper, 8 × 12 in. (20.32 × 30.48 cm). e.g. Courtesy of the artist.
Eloise Fornieles, The Message, 2012, Performance Installation. Courtesy of the artist.
Residents from United Kingdom
Past Resident2012: The Open University
Ellie Rees
Ellie Rees produces performance-based videos that use humor and irony to investigate what it means to be a woman in contemporary society. She concentrates on exaggerated portrayals of women in cinema and literature; particularly the inconsistency between liberated female roles and romantic views depicted in high and popular culture. The works are meticulously rehearsed, with a keen regard for formal considerations. Her aim is not to make documentation of a live event, but a precise performance to camera. Her work is often made using an uninterrupted ‘one-take’ method. She is interested in relying on rehearsal and practice, rather than technology and postproduction. In her most recent work, she uses found footage alongside the performance-based pieces, creating large scale, multi-channel installations.
Rees lives and works in London. She graduated from Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design and Winchester School of Art. She is a lecturer at various colleges in the UK, including Central Saint Martins. She has exhibited internationally, including at Tate Modern, London; El Museo de Arte Contemporaneo, Caracas; and The Neuberger Museum of Art, New York. She has been the recipient of various awards and fellowships from the Arts Council England, the Arts and Humanities Research Council, and the Jerwood Foundation. Her work has been commissioned by English National Opera and the Almeida Theatre and she has held residencies in Europe and the USA. Her academic research has been published in the UK.
Ellie Rees, Beyond Narcissus, 2008, Digital video, 2:30 min. Courtesy of the artist.
Ellie Rees, Balls, 2011, Mixed media and multi-channel digital video installation. Courtesy of the artist.
Ellie Rees, Pretty Eyed, Pirate Smile, 2009, Multi-channel digital video. Courtesy of the artist.
Ellie Rees, Hedgehogs and Foxes, 2011, Multi-channel HD digital video installation, Dimensions variable. Courtesy of the artist.
Ellie Rees, With and Without, 2010-11, Mixed media, multi-channel digital video installation, Dimensions variable. Courtesy of the artist.