Alice Amoroso
Visual Artist
During my PATI residency with Villa Swagatam, I intend to explore two distinct facets of Rajasthani culture : the Kavad, a handcrafted portable narrative shrine from Bassi village, and the Bishnoi worldview, grounded in ecological ethics and a profound, symbiotic bond with vulnerable life forms. I aim to engage the Kavad as both a collaborative, orally performed storytelling medium and a spatial framework for nonlinear, embodied narrative, one that challenges dominant representational structures, opening space for alternative modes of expression.
Alice Amoroso (b. 2001, Paris) is a visual artist. She explores the contrast between the relevance of contemporary subjects and the perceived anachronism of historical forms. She is particularly drawn to ancient visual traditions and iconographies, which, once reinterpreted and repurposed though craft techniques as engraving, screen printing, weaving or stained glass, invite us to critically examine the political and ethnic narratives that shape our understanding of the contemporary world. A 2024 graduate of the École des Arts Décoratifs de Paris, she was recently awarded residencies at both the Casa de Velázquez in Madrid and Villa Belleville in Paris.
