Bio
Dora Fiammetta Perini (NYC, 1995) is an Italian multidisciplinary artist working between Venice and London. She attended the Istituto Italiano di Fotografia in Milan in 2018, and went on to earn her Bachelor's degree in Fine Art from Central Saint Martins in 2022, where she was nominated for the Fine Art Nova Award. In 2023, she completed her Master's degree in Contemporary Art Practice at the Royal College of Arts.
Dora is interested in the secretive and emotional behaviours related to eating and embodiment; her poli-disciplinary process is fixated on food, the body and the abject, from which she expands her research, observing the inter relationship between extreme opposites such as excess and control, health and sickness, love and fear. She explores feeding practices and tablescapes, speculating on the potentiality of digestion as a new form of mutation. She gathers symbols through photography, juxtaposing her images to her sculptures. Her practice often culminates in site-specific installations with aspects of relational aesthetics, occasionally featuring live or recorded performance. She previously showcased her work in Milan through MIART week in 2021 and with Hypha Studios in London in 2023.
Satatement
I research the secretive and emotional behaviours related to eating and embodiment, with a focus on food, the physical body, and our conception of what is abject and what is sacred. Through a multi-disciplinary approach, I examine the interplay between extreme opposites, such as excess and control, health and sickness, love and fear.
I explore feeding practices and tablescapes, speculating on the potentiality of digestion as a new form of transmutation. I gather symbols through photography, juxtaposing my images to my sculptures, to my consistent dialogue with my body and my eating narratives. I find how we relate to food often leaves a thread that when followed leads to how we relate to faith.
My art seeks to reveal and disrupt oppressive practices, particularly around women's bodies.
I question my position between dualities of care and violence, vulnerability and strength and with each piece, I attempt to bring myself and the audience into a shape shifting space, based on exchange and reconfiguration, drawing parallels between feelings, symbols, archetypes and body perception. I care to share my immersive rituals, allowing for energies to meet and collide- discovering new meanings and connecting old dots to new dots. In the liminal spaces I evoke and exercise, I seek to transgress the most secretive of our boundaries, creating a dialogue between spirited containers and content. A role play of subversion, exposing the inside to remould the outside.
My practice often culminates in site-specific installations with aspects of relational aesthetics, occasionally featuring live or recorded performance. I find it important to come close to the audience like we come close to what we eat.
Education
2022-23 MA Contemporary Art Practice Royal College of Art - London
2020-22 BFA Central Saint Martin - London
2019-20 Foundation year Kingston University
2018-19 IIF (istituto Italiano di Fotografia) - Milan
2019 Toni Thorimbert Leica Academy - Milan
Solo Exhibitions
2021 - A’ la carte Des Bain Milan
2020 - Mindfood vol.1 Immagineria Vicenza
2019 - Tigre Contro Tigre Galleria Amatori Luisa Vicenza
2018 - M.A.P. Chiesa sconsacrata Vicenza
2017 - 95 Polaroids Via Vecchia Ferriera 21 Vicenza
Group exhibition
2024 Finding Place Art Council Crawley UK
2023 As Above So Below Hypha Studios London
2023 Objects of Dystopia London
2023 Degree Show Royal College of Art London
2022 Degree Show Central Saint Martin London
2021 Open Studio Immagineria Vicenza
2020 Kingston Year Show in Kingston upon Thames
2020 Human Beans London
Press
À la Carte: the Dora Perini exhibition in Milan September 2021
Dora Perini – À la Carte September 2021
Dora e la lotta alla bulimia: «La mia arte è nata così». Opere e dignità del corpo October 2021
L’ESPRESSIONE DEI CORPI NUDI May 2017