Fearless Simpleton

Nicholas Aloisio-Shearer

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Fearless Simpleton, 2023, Verge Gallery

Fearless Simpleton is an exhibition of tapestries and sculptures which combine the decorative traditions of Sicilian cathedral mosaics, online subcultures, Italian folktales, and the artist's own, misremembered, familial histories. Taking inspiration from his family’s ancestral hometown, the Sicilian “ghost village” Poggioreale, and his grandparents experience of immigration, the artist presents an imagined suite of anachronistic allegories. This convergence of imagery and narratives interrogates how Western art history, imaging technologies, and uncontainable reflections on cultural belonging might make a confrontation with the real too difficult to face.

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