Installation participated at the Artist Residency “The Light in the Borghi di Monte Castello di Vibio”. “MCDV Art Academy – project code CUP: D83G22000010006”, Ministero della Cultura, financed by the European Union, NextGenerationEU; Monte Castello di Vibio (IT). With https://www.residenzeartisticheumbria.it
2026. “Il Libro che tu sei” Cantiere di Arti Urbane – Terni Festival Diffuso, Palazzo Primavera, Terni (IT)
Encumbrance 30x30x30 cm, paperbacks, resin, rope and cooper. “Il Libro che tu sei – 2025”, curated by the associations freemocco and Trebisonda a.p.s.
ACTIONS PER in/FINITE FORMS 2 (2016-2030)
La nostra opera si compone di otto libri ingessati e sovrapposti; rappresenta una propria esperienza che ha formato parte del loro pensiero artistico. Ogni libro è conservato con un involucro puro, senza parola, consumato, ancorato ad una corda bianca, dove è stata applicata un etichetta in rame che riporta titolo, autore e anno della pubblicazione.
Our work consists of eight paperbacks that have been coated in plaster and stacked; it represents a personal experience that has shaped part of our artistic thought. Each book is enveloped in white plaster resin, it has become pure and wordless – the thoughts have been consumed. They are anchored to a white rope with a copper label, displaying the title, author, and year of publication.
A cura di 𝗙𝗮𝗯𝗿𝗶𝘇𝗶𝗼 𝗦𝗰𝗿𝗶𝘃𝗮𝗻𝗼, con 𝗖𝗹𝗮𝘂𝗱𝗶𝗼 𝗕𝗿𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗮𝗹𝗲𝗼𝗻𝗶, 𝗨𝗴𝗼 𝗖𝗼𝗽𝗽𝗮𝗿𝗶 𝗲 𝗟𝘂𝗰𝗮 𝗣𝗮𝗱𝗮𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗼. Fornaci è un progetto di estetizzazione della percezione ambientale che prende avvio dalle fornaci dismesse, presenze silenziose e diffuse nel paesaggio italiano: rovine moderne, archeologie del Capitalocene, promesse di futuro rimaste sospese.
Mixed media on paper, 3 p.d.a, 21 x 29,7 cm. Adolescere, curated by Associazione Wind Mill, for the WAD project, Roma (IT).
2026. Adolescere: Sincresis, Empoli (IT); SEMINIAMO ARTE VI Edizione – MuBAQ – Museo dei Bambini – L’Aquila capitale della cultura 2026; Aquila (IT). https://laquila2026.it/; Spazio Culturale La Vaccheria; Patrocinio del lX° Municipio, Roma (IT).
ACTIONS PER in/FINITE FORMS 2 (2016-2030)
Training Bra 3/3 – in exhibition
Training Bra 2/3
Training Bra 1/3
For adolescĕre:
On my 12th birthday my mother’s best friend, Shirley, came to my birthday party and gave me a package to open. There were maybe 10 other people there between my mother, brother, and sister and some friends and neighbours. When I opened the package I found what they called a “training bra”. It was virtually a cut off t-shirt with straps and a fastener in the back, a fake bra, in other words. I was absolutely shocked and embarrassed that everyone saw me open the gift. Then I was angry at Shirley for giving me a private item in public without any warning; just saying “maybe you don’t need it yet”.
I am and have always been pretty “flat chested” — I guess this “training” was actually to get me to learn how to be humiliated, since this was the first of multiple occasions. Breast size is often a topic of conversation between adolescents and adults in general. It is surprising how young-girl-becoming-woman bodies are a point of discussion and voiced control by society, adults, and parents. What is the “training” involved in? Learning to wear an uncomfortable piece of clothing? Training one’s future breasts to stay a layer away from other clothing? Training them to stay controlled tightly against our bodies without wiggle room?
This mixed media print of a bra of mine, which I worked on with my partner/husband, is a reflection on my painful adolescence (which was very different from his). It is a product of our ongoing collaboration as an artistic duo SANDFORD&GOSTI.
Video 4’37” installation, with colored shirts and banner. With “Un incontro sulla presenza cromatica” for Manuale di avvicinamento all’arte contemporanea, curated by Chiara Guidoni.
ACTIONS PER in/FINITE FORMS 2 (2016-2030)
Colored Shirts at Seaside Beach – still from video installation Colored Shirts at Seaside Beach – still from video installation
Collaborative Installation and Workshop: “Suspended Rocks for Lopez” – outside installation of recycled glass, rocks, and blue colored water, visible also from within the library (with Kit, Gretchen, Marcia, Tam, Linda, Sharon, Barb, and a special thank you to Nikyta and Tracey C).
Installation: “Pendente per Lopez” – hanging installation, found plywood and 126 rocks, 64 x 100 cm.
Banners: “Color Clash RBY*, BRG*, GBY*, YBR*” and “Water Patterns 1” – 2 or 3 color variations, silkscreen on cloth, 27 x 27 in..
Library cabinet installation: “Artifacts – Buffer of Time” installation of stone and glass, glass and nest, glass and driftwood, glass and shell, glass and seaweed, glass and stone, and driftwood and glass montage, various sizes, with “Color Vibrations” – 3 color variations, and Water Patterns 1” – 2 color variations.
Lopez Artist Walk first Saturday: Performance: “Vocabolario: Construction Grammar Geode 1”.
MEMORIE DAL TERRITORIO – ARTE CONTEMPORANEA 30 Arte/Scienza di Pace, a cura di Anna Cochetti, LA VACCHERIA. 16/04 -16/05 2025.
2024/2025, 11 galleggianti di legno e 16 calchi degli stessi in gesso su corda, pendente posto su una sedia in legno, installazione variabile — ogni ‘perlina’ 16 x 8 cm., con sviluppo di 5,40 m di collana; sedia 46 x 46 x 78 cm. Installazione in teca di 150 x 150 x 80 cm.
ACTIONS PER in/FINITE FORMS 2 (2016-2030)
Adami Claudio – Albanese Giovanni – Aller Bruno – Battisti Luigi – Bellocchi Claudia – Berardi Rosetta – Bielli Paolo – Binga Tomaso – Blumenthal Michiel – Bonoli Alessandra – Cenci Franco – Cesarini Sforza Primarosa – Ciampi Antonia – Contestabile Lea – Cuomo Gilles – De Luca Michele – De Luca Nino – Delhove Luce – Di Giacomo Adriano – Fabrizi Stefania – Facchinetti Marisa – Fiorucci Danilo – Fontana Giovanni – Frolet Elizabeth – Genovese Pino – Lanini Andrea – Liberni Andrea – Lok Wilma – Luzzi Federica – Malta Liliana – Marinaccio Michele – Morelli Mattia – Mussavi Mahshid – Nuti Franco – Palmarelli Angela – Pasquet Beatrice – Piccioni Ugo – Pignotti Lamberto – RADURA Laboratorio (Bacchi Laura – Cavallini Serena – Cimminella Maria Caterina – Conte Raffaella – Conti Maria Clara – Coppola Anna – Di Pietro Caterina – Dominici Rolando – Duranti Emanuela -Fabiani Fabio – Montagna Francesca – Papaevangeliu Giorgios – Parlani Antonella – Romitelli Giulia – Romitelli Maria Teresa – Silvestri Giovanna – Spens Sally – Tardocchi Marta – Vanacore Paola – Vitali Carlo – Zangheri Lorenzo) – Ragni Lucilla – Reggio Graziella – Renzogallo – Ruiu Massimo – Ryan Virginia – Sandford&Gosti – Sanna Sandro – Santarelli Sara – Scotti Paolo – Spezzano Nicola – Takahara Naoya – Teodori Nello – Timossi Alberto – Tomasini Andrea – Tronci Lepagier Marco
Suspended Pendant Rocks – Fairbanks Hall – College of Liberal Arts School of Visual, Performing and Design Arts – Oregon State University, April 26, 2023.
We placed the prints on already available nails, creating a “gallery” in our suite, as if they had been hung in that space permanently. The prints are from the silkscreen series: “Ring Series” and “Space Projection”, and laser prints of the installation details “La vita di colore” and “Pozzo Perlato”.
Wave of the Future preschool, Seaview; workshop with 3-5 year olds, led by Chloe Maglio. “@sandfordgosti visited WAVE during @souwesterarts week as part of our visiting artists program. They talked about the relationship between man-made & nature-made objects, specifically the juxtaposition of rocks balancing atop glass bottles. The kids also balanced and traced the rocks shadows on wood and other surfaces encouraging steady focus and experimentation.”
The focus of Arts Week 2023 is SHIFTING CYCLES our 4th Annual Arts Week. The Sou’wester hosts 30-35 artists and art collectives for a week of residency work culminating in a weekend (Friday and Saturday) of music, studio tours, performances and installations. 3728 J Place Seaview, WA 98644 Souwesterlodge
Portrait with installation by Sora Blu.
Site choice in the woods: looking down, looking up.
Day one: Placement of the 262 containers.
Photos Sora Blu and Sandford&Gosti.
Day two: Placement of the rocks.
Photos Sandford&Gosti.
Day three: Completing with color and water in the containers.
Open to the public 17-18 March 2023 > On Friday evening and all day Saturday for a grand exhibition to share everyone’s art.
The focus of Arts Week 2023 is SHIFTING CYCLES
During our 4th Annual Arts Week The Sou’wester hosts 30-35 artists and art collectives for a week of residency work culminating in a weekend (Friday and Saturday) of music, studio tours, performances and installations.
“Suspended Rocks: Geological Identities”, 2022 Stanza 650 X 550 cm., n. 1322 sassi e contenitori di vetro.
“Migrazione/Migration”; a cura di Antonio Carlo Ponti, Museo Civico di Palazzo della Penna, Perugia (IT); iniziativa del Comitato di Gemellaggio Perugia/Seattle, presidente Elisabetta Valentini; con Wilma Lok, Tonina Cecchetti, Paul Goldstein, Kim See Jin, Paolo Lattaioli, Humarira Abid, Iole Alessandrini, Sandford&Gosti, Mary Coss, Malaya Gormally.
“Did you iron my blue shirt? Hai stirato la mia camicia rossa?”, 2022 20 x 10 x 280 cm., tecnica mista su oggetto industriale/mixed media on industrial object.
ACTIONS PER in/FINITE FORMS 2 (2016-2030)
Did you iron my blue shirt? Hai stirato la mia camicia rossa? Is it blue/light-blue or red/pink? È blu/celeste o rosso/rosa?
Sandford&Gosti lavorano sotto un’unica firma dal 2000 sul progetto AZIONI PER FORME in/FINITE; riuniti sotto la teoria del colore e l’elaborazione della struttura le loro opere migrano costantemente e si modificano tra il naturale e il ready-made. Hanno partecipato ad eventi su 5 dei 7 continenti.
mostra collettiva, freemocco a.p.s con il Patrocinio del Comune di Deruta
titolo/title: IRON:
Sara Tosti, Sandor Valy, Danilo Fiorucci, Laura Vdb Facchini, Lea Contestabile, Benedetta Galli, Caterina Ciuffetelli, Primarosa Cesarini Sforza, Massimo Ruiu, Virginia Ryan, Medina Zabo, Sara Cancellieri, Sandford&Gosti, Alessandra Baldoni, Nea Lindgrèn, Elly Nagaoka, Rita Albertini, Silvia Stuky, Luigi Fucchi, Fariba Karimi, Veronica Montanino, Yongxu Wang, Adwoa Amoah, Polly Brooks, Gary Jo Gardenhire, Adwoa Amoah, Carlo Dell’amico, Jennie Temple, Justin Randolph Thompson
a cura di/ curated by: Virginia Ryan e Benedetta Galli
luogo/place: Il Granaio, Piazza Cavour 1, 06053 Deruta (Rione Valle)
periodo della mostra/period of the exhibition: 12/26 agosto 2022
orari apertura mostra/exhibition opening times: 11/13 – 17/19, tutti i giorni
The collective exhibition IRON developed from a quote by the activist and writer Betty Friedan. In her book The Feminine Mystique (1963) she wrote “It is easier to live life through someone else than to become complete yourself”. The artists worked around the theme exploring issues such as control, domination over the body, desire and sexuality. Exhibited works re-imagined the nuances around both the word and material object IRON.
With the written contributions of the following arts-writers and critics: Manuela De Leonardis, Mara Predicatori, Davide Silvioli, Emma Tramontana and Antonella Cristina Manni
Il progetto espositivo IRON trova la sua genesi nella citazione dell’attivista statunitense Betty Friedan nel libro The Feminine Mystique (1963) “È più facile vivere attraverso qualcun altro che diventare un completo te stesso”. Gli artisti hanno lavorato attorno a questo campo di specificità dando origine ad un dibattito intorno ai temi del contemporaneo come il controllo, il dominio del corpo, del desiderio e della sessualità. Le opere in mostra sono state inoltre pensate sulle molteplici declinazioni del termine iron /ferro.
Hanno partecipato, sul tema della mostra, diversi autori con dei testi pubblicati nel libro di mostra: Manuela De Leonardis, Mara Predicatori, Davide Silvioli, Emma Tramontana e Antonella Cristina Manni.
freemocco edizioni:
La pubblicazione IRON, verrà realizzata grazie al progetto freemoccoXl’arte, disponibile in mostra, oppure nel sito www.freemocco.com.
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