Fernando Sicco

Fernando Sicco defines his artistic work as the creation of devices to generate sensitive and critical experiences, regardless their form or medium. He began his relationship with art through analog photography and video, later incorporating installation, body research, and digital resources alongside web content. His work has been exhibited in several international biennials, group exhibitions and solo shows since 1989. Between 2009 and 2020 he was responsible for the creation and curating of the Contemporary Art Space in Montevideo, transforming a former panoptic prison into an internationally recognized place for freedom, encounter, and communication

SMALL LAND OF LAWLESS DEAD is an art project that explores family experience, funeral habits and bureaucracy, and also the role of local cultures in their encounters with migrants. As a final stage of research, Fernando will gather new material in the Liguria region, from where his father and grandparents emigrated to Uruguay in 1951. Starting from a factual situation that violates the funeral regulations of his country but was maintained with the complicity of the authorities, he is taking charge of that legacy through art.