Performance of Witchcraft in the Practice of Artist Chiara Fumai

Emily Verla Bovino (New York/Hong Kong) is a researcher, writer, and artist. She studied at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Roma and participated in the Fondazione Ratti’s XV Corso Superiore di Arti Visive in 2009 with Chiara Fumai. As an artist, she has presented work with Viafarini (Milan), SOMA (Mexico City), Fieldwork: Marfa (Texas), Futura (Czech Republic), the Gulf Labor Coalition (New York), the & Now Festival of New Writing (San Diego) and soundpocket (Hong Kong) among others. In 2017, she received her Ph.D. in Art History, Theory and Criticism from the University of California, San Diego as a grantee of the University of California Institute for Research in the Arts, and in 2021 was a research fellow with the M+ Museum of Visual Culture and Design Trust in Hong Kong. Her writing on contemporary art and architecture has appeared in Mousse, Pin-Up, Frieze, Spike Art Quarterly, Architectural Review, Journal of Chinese Contemporary Art, and Museum Anthropology.

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