Alfredo Aceto

Alfredo Aceto 

Born 1991 in Turin, Italy

Lives and works in Geneva, Switzerland

Aceto's practice includes film, installation, photography, text and sculpture, and is mainly concerned with the body and the biography. Using among others sculpture, film and sound, Alfredo Aceto creates spaces suspended between fiction and reality. His environments are places to live, in which one can find a sort of melancholy, artificial time alteration and image saturation. The objects he produces are traces, functional elements for the construction of the space where the blurred boundaries between his personal timeline and the collective one express the way chronology can be manipulate. His work arises from the will to create a place where would mix together the various strata of a linear form of time, turning into a platform from which signs of different ages emerge. Alfredo Aceto nurtures his own research by questioning his own self and, more in general, the ego that reigns in every person, if only on a latent level.

Alfredo Aceto studied Fine Arts at ECAL (École Cantonale d’Art de Lausanne). His work has been exhibited in many international surveys, including DOC!, Paris, Museo Pietro Canonica, Rome, Museo del 900, Milan, Centre d’Art Contemporain de Genève, Geneva, Kunst Halle Sankt Gallen, St. Gallen or Kunsthaus Glarus, Glarus. Aceto is currently teaching at ECAL in Lausanne. In 2022 his work has been shown at MCBA (Musée Cantonal des beaux-arts de Lausanne), CAPC (Musée d’Art Contemporain de Bordeaux) and Fondazione Merz, Palermo.