Contemporary artist Adriana Affortunati has just published a bilingual Italian-English catalog documenting her project ACASA, a livable artwork open monthly to the public in Borgo San Lorenzo in Tuscany, pursuing her long-standing interest in dissolving the boundary between domestic space, exhibition space, and the work itself.
Born from a direct intervention inside a house and constructed from the objects it contained; dishes, fabrics, portraits, clothing, and traces of everyday life, ACASA transformed the home into a livable work of art composed of site-specific installations created directly on the walls and in dialogue with the architecture of the rooms. The catalog features photographs by Adriana Affortunati and a critical essay by curator and researcher Nam Huh.
Adriana Affortunati (São Paulo, 1982) is a visual artist who works primarily with sculptures and installations made from found objects and materials related to the places she visits. She studied Visual Arts at the Centro Universitário Belas Artes in São Paulo and Contemporary Aesthetics and Philosophy at the University of Milan. This particular background — studio practice paired with continental philosophical training —helps explain the conceptual rigor and the meditative, almost phenomenological quality that runs through her work.
Affortunati's career has developed across continents. Her exhibition history, spanning nearly 20 years, moves fluidly between Brazil, Austria, and Italy, with additional stops in South Korea, Portugal, Sweden, and Canada.
