FALL RESIDENCY PROGRAM
Numeroventi celebrated its 7th anniversary of interdisciplinary explorations by announcing its autumn season of residencies curated by Ben Broome. The program welcomed artists Samuel Guerrero, Minjae Kim, and Gala Prudent from October 15th to November 12th, 2023.
The three residents, hailing from different locales and working with diverse mediums, spent four weeks producing and researching in response to the architectural context of Palazzo Galli Tassi and the city of Florence. Their work culminated in an exhibition that opened on November 11th at 5.30 pm.
In line with Broome’s curatorial interests in musical performance as a way to engage audiences beyond the contemporary art sphere, French composer Chassol, Toronto-based DJ Bambii, and Pan’s Bill Kouligas joined the three visual artists during the final days.
The project marked the first time Numeroventi explored this specific residency format: the curator-artist joint stay. By positioning curatorial practice as an on-site activity, Numeroventi invited London-based curator Ben Broome to bring together the artists to challenge traditional exhibition-making formats and encourage an organic development of the curatorial framework.
SAMUEL GUERRERO
Born in Mexico City in 1997, Samuel Guerrero lived and worked in Mexico City. Through his painting and sculptural practice, Guerrero explored the assimilation of territory (and its cultural and political implications) and the deconstruction and reconstruction of the body, particularly the formation of appearance through mutating social identities.
MINJAE KIM
Born in Seoul in 1989, Minjae Kim lived and worked in Brooklyn. His furniture practice was rooted in playfulness and seduced through functionality. From bodily impressions carved in wood to the anthropomorphic silhouettes of his quilted fiberglass vessels, Kim centered materiality and touch as a means to animate form.
GALA PRUDENT
Born in New York in 1999, Gala Prudent lived and worked in Brooklyn, NY. Her work—spanning analog photography, installed sculptural forms, and writing—located Black femme subjectivity as it occurred and manifested in the field of objects, social architecture, history, and the natural world. By enlisting static objects and materials to perform the body, Gala troubled the reliability of sight and language to reproduce the real. She sought to locate or imagine aliveness as an allegory for Blackness in the materials she employed.
BEN BROOME
Born in 1994, Ben Broome was a London-based curator who focused on artists working at the convergence of mediums such as musical performance and performance art, film, and video art. With a human-centric approach to curation and its resulting viewership, Broome set out to create a borderless nucleus for artists and viewers alike. He created spaces for cross-generational exchange and attempted to engage new audiences through varied programming.
FALL PROGRAM HIGHLIGHTS
Thursday, November 2nd
Pierre Rosseau performed at C/O Bardi at 6.00 pm
Wednesday, November 8th
Christophe Chassol performed at 6.30 pm.
Thursday, November 9th
Rose Salane, curator Chiara Siravo (MACRO), and Ben Broome participated in an artist talk at 6.00 pm.
Friday, November 10th
A preview dinner was held at 8.00 pm with chef Mathieu Canet.
Saturday, November 11th
The Fall Residency Exhibition opened featuring works by Samuel Guerrero, Minjae Kim, and Gala Prudent.