Emanuele Resce

Emanuele Resce, born in Italy in 1987, graduated from the Benevento High School of Art in 2006. After living in Germany and later settling in Milan, he resumed his artistic practice in 2013 following years of Marxist political activity. In Milan, he co-founded OMUAMUA, a 270-square-meter space that has served since 2019 as a relational activator for contemporary art through artist workspaces and exhibitions.

Resce’s practice intersects aesthetic parameters from different eras, exploring the mutual derivation of matter, mather, and death through material and methodical experiments. By associating natural and industrial salvaged elements, he employs primitive expressive techniques that interpret a dynamic connaturality with the nonhuman. His process embraces randomness and accidents as tools of aesthetic resistance to anthropic ideologies of control and subjugation, allowing unexpected profiles of latent monstrosity to emerge.

Recurring in his works is the reuse of materials from rural contexts in southern Italy, reflecting the cycles of urbanization, industrialization, and abandonment. These remnants, collected and left without a specific project, become "fossil witnesses" and fragments of construction and destruction. In his ‘extratemporal beings,’ Resce stages a strabismus between ancient and contemporary, consecrating representation in the service of execution and employing raw materials as the empirical matter of meaning.