LAPO SORRIDE (he/they) is an interdisciplinary artist, fragmented and polyphonic creature.
They creates immersive environments and portal-like objects made of rug, clay, dirt, branches and smells, wax and stitching techniques as well as printed digital environments, granular and tense surfaces, sensitive walls, interzones and organic textures, with sustainable practices implemented with sound manipulation techniques to alter the perception of time and space.
Lapo is also a digital surfer interested in the potentiality of rabbit-holes and community building within the realm of the dark web. They investigate re-enchantment strategies to facilitate collective healing and embrace New Materialism theories, which prioritize post-human figurations over traditional forms of representation. Role play in this research is the aim to foster an affirmative mindset combined with romantic speculations.
Their artistic projects embed life itself. They advocate for an approach grounded in the everyday existence, surfing into unconventional (illegal) networks and language/behavioral modification as a means to challenge the patriarchal system and construct alternative realities.
LAPO SORRIDE (he/they) is an interdisciplinary artist, fragmented and polyphonic creature involved in crafting items and clay sculptures entwined with textiles and branches experimenting across entities mixing magic and new materialism.
Makes mixed-media installations using clay, rugs, string connections, branches, drawing and sewing on fabric, enchantments, wax, soil, smells, restored objects, digital prints of digital manipulations and granular synthesis (both audio and visual), airbrush painting as well as composition of soundscapes and sonic environments, movies a videos.
As Kinked curate mix series for Radio Sygma and 00185fm.eu.
You can dig in the sonic research platform A185, founded in the ex-artist runned space ASILE185, now converted into the concert venue and indipendent cinema room ASILE, runned by Misto Mame Collective and 00185fm in Turin.
recent projects:
Reincanto/Intrarcana emerged as a performative strategy. It became a live-set under the experimental alias Kinked, featuring an immersive environment made of sensitive walls, interzones and tense surfaces, clay entities and cartilaginous tissues;
Nocturnal Drift, off-site and photo shooting for the album of Giulia Rae;
the short movie “Left Behind” composed for the collective decentralized and synchronous video screenings “Swarm Axes” curated by Solo Show
the sculptures of “...as water left our bodies becoming wheezing desire” for “Saints Of The Unknown” curated by Solo Show ...
(wip) DIGITAL GARDEN