To build a home by Isabella Capezio
Isabella Capezio’s large-scale vinyl artwork ‘To build a home’ will be displayed on the external wall of Mornington Peninsula Shire until Sunday 1 March as part of the Midsumma Festival.
About the Public Art exhibition
When: Monday 24 November – Sunday 1 March
What: To build a home – Public Art – vinyl artwork
Artist: Isabelle Capezio
Where: Mornington Peninsula Shire (external wall) – 2 Queen Street Mornington
Mornington Peninsula Shire showcases major Midsumma installation by Isabella Capezio
Isabella Capezio’s large-scale vinyl artwork ‘To build a home’ will be displayed on the external wall of Mornington Peninsula Shire until Sunday 1 March as part of the Midsumma Festival.
The work explores the ways queer families create belonging and stability, weaving together fragments and found materials into a fragile yet resilient home. Drawing on influences from Sara Ahmed and Donna Haraway, the collage layers photographic prints, clippings and textures to reflect themes of family, identity, desire and the affective connections that shape queer lives.
Capezio is an artist and lecturer in photography at RMIT whose practice explores queerness, failure and nature through experimental, site-specific approaches.
“When a path is not clearly laid out, when queer takes you off course, the journey is one of building and becoming,” writes Isabella.
Midsumma is Australia’s leading queer arts and culture festival, running for 22 days each summer in Melbourne with more than 200 events across visual arts, performance and community.
More information: To build a home by Isabella Capezio – Our Arts & Culture
Artist Bio
Isabella Capezio is an artist and lecturer in photography at RMIT with a PhD in Media and Communication, living and working on
Wurrundjeri Woi Wurrung land. Isabella’s work and research explores ideas of failure, queerness, and nature and how alternative and expanded forms of photography can unsettle existing colonising forms of representation. Isabella is interested in experimental, process driven and site-specific engagements with environments and their histories to address the climate crisis, extraction and colonial logics.
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