Raphaël Cuomo/Maria Iorio

RAPHAËL CUOMO
1977: Né à Delémont Vit et travaille à Genève et Maastricht
1998-2003: Ecole supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Genève
2006-2007: Jan van Eyck Academie, Fine Art department, Maastricht

MARIA IORIO
1975: Née à Lausanne Vit et travaille à Genève et Maastricht
1998-2004: Ecole supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Genève
2006-2007: Jan van Eyck Academie, Fine Art department, Maastricht

«UN TEXTE COURT RELATIF A VOTRE TRAVAIL»
The host says that we should now spend a moment or two discussing what all of our friends back home have so often heard about Lampedusa - arrive? sbarchi di clandestini - arrivals... disembarkations - but to tell you the truth - me - sincerely - I haven't ever seen anything - he gestures with his left hand - why is that? The mayor smiles and thanks him for the question, which allows him to talk about the situation. The mayor says - thanks to the care and sensitivity of the combined national and local institutions as well as the forces of order dealing with this phenomenon - we are able to keep the reality of clandestine immigration separate - distinctly separate - from the life of the community.
SEE RAPHAËL CUOMO AND MARIA IORIO, «SUDEUROPA/WELCOME-LIVE», IN: «THE MAGHREB CONNECTION», URSULA BIEMANN, BRIAN HOLMES (EDS), ACTAR, BARCELONA, 2006

EXPOSITIONS INDIVIDUELLES
2002: «Les entrefaites/attractions, hantises», Palais de l'Athénée, Genève (avec Mathias Montavon)
2003: «Survivants», Les Halles, Espace d'art contemporain, Porrentruy (avec Mathias Montavon)

EXPOSITIONS COLLECTIVES
2005: «Swiss Art Awards», Centre de Foires de Bâle [cat.]
2006: «The Maghreb Connection. Movements of life across North Africa», The Townhouse Gallery, Cairo; «Noir et/ou Blanc», Duplex, Genève; «Resonance. Or how one reality can be understood through another», Artis, Den Bosch/Niederlande
2007: «The Maghreb Connection. Movements of Life Across North Africa», Centre d'art contemporain, Genève; «Feu la Sonde», Galerie Martine & Thibault de la Châtre, Paris

DISTINCTIONS/PRIX
2002: Newcomers award, Viper festival, Bâle
2006-2007: Soutien de résidence, Fonds d'art contemporain de la Ville de Genève (Fmac); Bourse Fondation IKEA