Mia Capodilupo
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Tongue Coverings Series (Lace), c-print 2001
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My work uses varied materials to explore the simultaneous human desire for and intense fear of intimacy in both a sexual and emotional sense, addressing the human body and the natural environment in a visceral, seductive and playful manner. The element of touch plays an important role in the work as I examine the tension between intense hungers and desires and the need to be in control and independent. The idea of drawing the viewer into a fantasy world inhabited by sexuality, nature, fun, danger and disappointment and also pushing him/her away is central to my work. Another central idea is the imaginary world created with ordinary materials and the urban landscape, where empty storefronts and abandoned buildings become magical kingdoms. Empty lots and rooms become simultaneously utopian and distopian sites populated by alien creatures.
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Material Field, installation, 2005
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My pieces often reference nature, landscape and the body but present them through human-made materials and methods that evoke theater, sexuality, the carnivalesque, the history of Feminist art, crafts, fantasy and pop culture.
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Garden of Eden, 2007
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Hybrid 6, Mixed Media 2008
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Gold City Installation, 2009
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I use fabric due to its associations with touch, domesticity and intimacy, and plaster, steel and rubber to explore the urban landscape, industry and construction. I often combine unusual materials to create familiar, yet strange alien worlds.
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Mia Capodilupo
3305 W. Catalpa
60625
Chicago, IL
Chicago, IL
Illinois
North America
t: 1 7737694226
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