Studio for Immediate Spaces
Elia Castino
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Public space around De Fabriek Volkskamer
Van Ostadestraat 233D
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Elia Castino (°1992, IT) is an artist exploring an idea of inhabiting and homemaking that extends beyond the confines of the house.
Drawing materials from the rural places of his upbringing and the urban world of his daily life, he practices an inventiveness that arises from the relationship with what already exists within the contexts he operates in.
He lives in a stilt house on a mud island surrounded by a silver river in between Brussels and the North-Western Italian countryside.
The work expands from a research on domesticity, focusing on the living conditions of international students in the city of Amsterdam. In a context where housing struggle is rampant, the project looks at real occurrences to reflect upon the way domestic daily life unfolds. When the conventional structure of the house dissolves new forms are generated; the architecture for the home becomes scattered, hybrid, ephemeral, a series of habits, rituals and routines, a simple pure moment in space.
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