B.1993. Italian, British-born artist, currently living and working in London and Paris, Mila works across film, photography, object-making, drawing, and performance. Mila's recent body of work investigates play theory and how it explores survival not as a mere question of maintaining life, biologically speaking, but how we enhance adaptive capabilities and resilience. Play can be seen as a self-protecting process that changes the architecture of the brain, an essential component of health and well-being. It also considers the ways in which child object identification, representation, gender, and sexuality become embroiled in adult life, and how these might take on a fantastical or bizarre scale.
Driven by an unwavering curiosity about the human condition, '“humour emerges as a vital element in challenging conventional notions of survival, identity, and resilience, inviting audiences to explore the interconnectedness of the human experience with a sense of playfulness”.
ART EXHIBITIONS
•59 Rivoli, Paris, 2023
Le Bonheur Parfait, performance, duration 30mins
•The Ministry, London, 2023
To the Lighthouse, performance, duration 3hrs
•SupraStore, AplusA Gallery, Venice, 2022
Screening Bang Up to Date, 3min film
Exhibition of Mini Bastards, wood, silicone, 15cm
• 10Year Window Project Anniversary, Gazelli Art House, London, 2022
Exhibition of Inveterate Dreamers
•Royal College of Art, Battersea, 2022
Exhibition of Spoon, polished mild steel, 3m
•Royal College of Art, Battersea, 2022
Exhibition of Oh Sweetie, Installation, mixed media
•Penumbral Zone, Gallery46, 2022
Gesture as Hieroglyph III, 30-minute performance drawing
•Naturisms, Hornsey studios, 2022
Continuous-Time Drawing II, a 1.5hr durational performance
•First Impressions, Safe House Peckham, 2021
Projection of Les Oliviers
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•Soufiane Zaribe Showroom, Marrakech, 2021
Exhibition of House of Pomegranate Bananas, Breakfast All day and Hourglass painting.
•Work In Progress, Royal College of Art, Exhibition, 2021
Exhibition of Inveterate Dreamers and Not Mushroom in Here
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•Visionary Rumors, Royal College of Art, Exhibition, 2021
Experimental film exhibition Morocco Diaries
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•Hammersmith and Fulham Arts Festival, Digital Exhibition, 2020
Photography works from Inveterate Dreamers
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•I Do Art, The Deep End, Curated by Hannah King, 2020
Exhibition of Fragile Disguise
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•SPILL, Studio 3 Gallery, University of Kent, 2019
Sustainable fashion show, working as Designer / Choreographer
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•TIME, Studio 3 Gallery, University of Kent, 2018
Continuous-Time Drawing, 2hr durational performance
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•Photography Exhibition, Studio Gallery 3, Curated by Dr Jonathan Friday, 2018
Form Inform All Series Exhibition
PUBLICATIONS & AWARDS
•Among Other Things, Royal College of Art, 2021
•Value Zine, Royal College of Art, 2021•
•Invisible Observed Zine, Royal College of Art, 2020
•Best Contemporary Sculpture, Keynes College Life, 2020
ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENTS
•MA Sculpture (Thesis, Distinction), Royal College of Art, 2020-2022
•BA (Hons) Film and Theatre, University of Kent, 2017-2020
•Certified Yoga Teacher, Yoga Alliance Certificate (RYT-500), 2014