Exhibitions

Alfabeto Ambrosia is a series which draws inspiration from work by Tomaso Binga produced in the 1970s, where the artist has performed linguistic forms of the alphabet with her body. Centering around this series by Ambrosia, and responding more deeply to the legacy of Tomaso Binga’s work, Tino & Kramer have invited Alix Lambert and Ambrosia to participate in our booth for The Others Art Fair, and further provide inquiries into femininity, beauty, power and language. We are pleased to connect this group of artists that are at different stages of their development within their visual arts practices for this unique group exhibition.

Ambrosia is a regarded performer in queer venues, night clubs and alternative spaces throughout Italy. Throughout her experiences she has used the camera to document intimate moments of individuals outside of mainstream life in Italy. Ambrosia has come to be known on a national stage in Italy with her acting role in ‘Bar Stella,’ a television series on Rai where she plays a central character. While Ambrosia’s performances and photography have been heralded in media outlets and publications in Italy and abroad, we wish to consider Ambrosia’s contribution to artistic discourse and commitment to artistic practices in a new way. As a celebrated photographer in her own right, the series Alfabeto Ambrosia places the artist as both the subject and director of a larger artwork,

Alix Lambert has flourished in her career as a documentarian, filmmaker and writer since she began her artistic career in the 1990s. Alix has had noteworthy shows at galleries such as Perrotin and was included in the iconic Aperto Exhibition at the 1993 Biennale di Venezia. Having work that often considers the performative qualities of everyday life such as her ‘Wedding Series’ or her engagement with boxing in ‘No Holes Barred,’ Alix’s work emancipates femininity from being understood one dimensionally as a set of aesthetic criteria. Centering around a re-reading of Tomaso Binga’s work, Alix and Ambrosia’s works contribute to this exhibition by squaring-the-circle in terms of providing a multi-dimensional perspective on feminism and freedom.

Beyond Codex: Living Archives delves into artistic practices that utilize archiving as a method to reimagine the potential of publishing. The exhibition focuses on strategies of the artist as researcher, highlighting the importance of archives/archiving as records of history and as evolving spaces for inquiry and discourse. As a beginning, rather than an end, the living archive extends the notion of its application beyond a preservational position; rethinking the power structures of the archival system – its presumed authority as an institution of itself – Beyond Codex: Living Archives is a meditation on the crossing and diverging pathways between personal narratives and public records, as well as the notion of accessibility within organized systems. From family records to online indexes, Beyond Codex includes works which challenge the conventions of publishing and archiving while generating needed space for often-times under-recognized cultural heritage and texts.