Fabrice Bernasconi Borzì is a Swiss-Italian artist, born in Geneva in 1989. He lives and works between Italy and Switzerland.

This relocation for the artist is a sort of journey backwards, in reverse to that made by many of his peers: in moving from the North to the South of Europe, he attempts to rediscover a cultural otherness, peculiar to his places of origin, which is functional to his work as an artist. This national and existential dualism, this dual citizenship, with the resulting contradiction, underlies the balanced conflict between forces that his work intends to express.

The formal elements used more often than not are simple, minimal or depotentiated, almost as if to subvert the ‘usual’ with the use of a paradoxical and at times provocative language, of Dadaist matrix, which does not disdain quotations and recuperation. The intent is clear, as it develops a series of questions about the very meaning of ‘making’, its implicit conceptual assumptions, and how this is interpreted within the current art system.

From these assumptions moves a reflection on human beings and their alienation from existence, in a dichotomy that politically picks up the tradition of the conflict between productive and social forces, against hegemonic and capitalist powers.

His seems to be a kind of philosophy of idiocy, whose linguistic structure - often precarious forms and extemporary assemblages - is the result of an oxymoronic ‘discipline of the provisional’ that at times recalls a certain intellectual intent of situationist détournement seen from the process perspective of a rigorous and methodical behaviourism. Contradiction in terms that leads him to work, with obstinate discipline, on complex concepts such as loss, precariousness and resilience, hidden under the expressive stratagem of ill-concealed irony. Under these conditions, nihilism and history, defeatism and teleology are the same, posing a form of active and catalysing resistance. This is the conjunction of philosophy and revolt, of belief, of subversion and belonging. Politics and poetry in the raw gesture of balancing despite the evidence of facts.

Fabrice Bernasconi Borzì sees himself as a ‘sponge and a thief of ideas, but he is working hard to be, truly, what he is’.