Giulio Squillacciotti

Artist, film-maker and researcher lives and works in Maastricht (NL) and Milan (I). He is 2018/2019 Van Eyck Academie Residency Fellow, and 2019 Italian Council Grant recipient. He was recently awarded the Talent Prize 2019, the Dommering Fonds production grant and the Arte Visione/SKY Art prize. He was part of the Dutch Pavilion at the 2018 Venice Architecture Biennale. Studied Medieval Art History in Barcelona and Rome. He owns a MA in Visual Arts from the Venice University of Architecture IUAV, where he studied Art, Philosophy, Semiotics and Anthropology. In 2010 was recipient of the FAR Advanced Course in Visual Arts with Walid Raad and in 2011 of the Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa one year studio residency. His work is mainly oriented on storytelling, cultural apexes and the way traditions re-shape in new contexts. His research merges together fiction and historical facts. Using film, documentary, sound and scenography, Squillacciotti produces research-based investigations that revisits history, crafting new stories from subjective perspectives, religion and popular culture. He has written for Visual Ethnography Journal, Domus, Paesaggio, VICE and Shopping Hour.