Gisella Chaudry

Palermo 1989
Lives and works in Turin

Gisella Chaudry grows up in a multicultural family (Pakistani father and Sicilian mother), where the social difficulty is always present: Sicilian condition culturally linked to traditions and the discrimination on the ethnicity of her father.
This essential aspect, while growing up, turns into empathy for those who live these situations today, who decide to accomplish catharsis by facing the sea. This situation is aggravated by globalization and repeated wars that have increased the number of migratory flows.
Journeys from East to West and from South to North looking for better possibilities and expectations. Gisella Chaudry reflects on the principle of multicultural aggregations in which the earth it’s not only the cradle of different cultures, but also an illusion that becomes affliction caused by dictatorships, prejudices, ignorance and exploitation.
This point of view is tangled between dystopia and utopia, fed by the gap between social classes and technological domination, the possibility of a new humanism is pushed away.

SOLO SHOWS (SELECTION)

2021
PUNTO DI CONTATTO, Raffaella De Chirico Arte Contemporanea, Milan

2019
TALVOLTA NOTTURNA, curated by Paola Stroppiana, L’officina arte con-temporanea, Turin
ASCOLTAMI. RESIDUI DI SOLE NELL’ ATMOSFERA DI MEZZO, curated by Fabio Vito Lacertosa, Davide Paludetto Arte Contemporanea, Turin

GROUP SHOW (SELECTION)

2022
STRANGE TIMES, Basile Contemporary, Roma
RI-ABITARE, curated by Francesca Canfora, il Quartiere, Saluzzo

2021
PUNTO DI CONTATTO, Raffaella De Chirico Arte Contemporanea, Milan
CHOICES, Raffaella De Chirico Arte Contemporanea, Milan
PAINT IT BLACK, Raffaella De Chirico Arte Contemporanea, Torin
EARTH, AIR, SPACE, Raffaella De Chirico Arte Contemporanea, Milan
LEVIA,GRAVIA, curated by Francesca Canfora, Roberto Mastroianni, Galleria Umberto Benappi, Turin

2020
PRIMA NECESSITA’//BASIC NECESSITIES, curated by @SpazioY, @abc_artcollective, @nation.2.0, online due to Covid-19 quarantine, Instagram
#IO RESTO, L’officina arte con-temporanea, Turin
RE- OPENING CONTEMPORARY, Davide Paludetto Arte Contemporanea, Turin

2019
EQUINOZIO D’AUTUNNO. COSMO, L’UNIVERSO INTIMO, curated by Danilo Lo Piccolo, Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Castello di Rivara, Turin
HOME SWEET HOME, Davide Paludetto Arte Contemporanea, Turin 
BLOCCO/9, curated by Danilo Lo Piccolo, Chiesa di San Crispin0 e Crispiniano, Palermo

2018
CONTROLLO DEL CORPO, L’officina arte con-temporanea, Turin
EQUINOZIO D’AUTUNNO, curated by Fabio Vito Lacertosa, Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Castello di Rivara, Turin 
4 EQUILIBRI PALERMITANI, curated by Fabio Vito Lacertosa, Davide Paludetto Arte Contemporanea, Turin
SHINE, curated by AccaAtelier, Galleria GSF Contemporany Art, Turin
RAID, curated by FatStudio, abitazione confiscata alla famiglia Lo Bue, Corleone, Palermo
CONTROLLO DEL CORPO, Spazio Y, Palermo
PALERMO SPLEEN, Spazio Y, Palazzo savona, Palermo

2017
U MARIMOTU, XXS aperto al contemporaneo, Palermo

2016
IMPOSSIBILE, curated by Saverio Todaro and Nicus Lucà Spazio Bianco, Turin

2015
IN HOC SIGNO, Palazzo Costantino, Palermo

2014
HYDRA, ex Convento dei Carmelitani, Partinico, Palermo