
Riccardo Apuzzo & Claudia Mendini
Milano - Italy
Stars Inside
The cave is alive and ever-changing. Light cleaves the darkness. Through the opening in the vault, at 10:30 a.m. on the summer solstice, the sun’s rays strike our installation, generating constellations. A gaze lifted upward: a sudden enchantment, a luminous epiphany that crowns the early-summer ritual journey to the Grotta dei Partigiani. A delicate sculpture rises from the rock, a mineral memory of crystals reaching toward the sky. A raw-earth brazier, shaped from forest and river materials, is ignited by the sun through a lens. Time will return it to the earth. An ice vessel filled with seeds tells the story of the first containers used at the dawn of humanity.
STARS INSIDE is a project initiated in 2024 through the encounter between visual artist Claudia Mendini and filmmaker Riccardo Apuzzo. The work explores the relationship between the movements of the celestial vault, time, and place, focusing on ancestral spaces. The cave is a sheltering hollow: a mineral womb formed over millennia, a deposit of memory, a fixed place from which to observe the passage of slow, cyclical time. Narratives of sunlight break through the darkness. Sculptures and installations evoke the memories of places; vessels, understood as archetypes, recall layered communal experiences over time. Territories are narrated through gestures and constructions generated from local materials.
Milano - Italy
Stars Inside
The cave is alive and ever-changing. Light cleaves the darkness. Through the opening in the vault, at 10:30 a.m. on the summer solstice, the sun’s rays strike our installation, generating constellations. A gaze lifted upward: a sudden enchantment, a luminous epiphany that crowns the early-summer ritual journey to the Grotta dei Partigiani. A delicate sculpture rises from the rock, a mineral memory of crystals reaching toward the sky. A raw-earth brazier, shaped from forest and river materials, is ignited by the sun through a lens. Time will return it to the earth. An ice vessel filled with seeds tells the story of the first containers used at the dawn of humanity.
STARS INSIDE is a project initiated in 2024 through the encounter between visual artist Claudia Mendini and filmmaker Riccardo Apuzzo. The work explores the relationship between the movements of the celestial vault, time, and place, focusing on ancestral spaces. The cave is a sheltering hollow: a mineral womb formed over millennia, a deposit of memory, a fixed place from which to observe the passage of slow, cyclical time. Narratives of sunlight break through the darkness. Sculptures and installations evoke the memories of places; vessels, understood as archetypes, recall layered communal experiences over time. Territories are narrated through gestures and constructions generated from local materials.
Stelle Dentro
La grotta è viva e si trasforma. La luce fende il buio. Dalla squarcio sulla volta alle 10.30 di mattina del solstizio d’estate, i raggi del sole colpiscono la nostra installazione, generando costellazioni. Lo sguardo verso l’alto: una magia improvvisa, epifania luminosa che corona il cammino rituale di prima estate verso la Grotta dei Partigiani. Una sottile scultura si leva dalla roccia, memoria minerale dei cristalli distesi verso il cielo. Un braciere in terra cruda, fatto di bosco e di fiume, è acceso dal sole attraverso una lente. Il tempo lo restituirà alla terra. Un vaso di ghiaccio colmo di semi racconta dei primi contenitori utilizzati all’alba dell’umanità.
STELLE DENTRO è un progetto avviato nel 2024 dall’incontro fra la artista visiva Claudia Mendini e il filmmaker Riccardo Apuzzo. Il lavoro indaga la relazione tra i movimenti della volta celeste, il tempo, i luoghi, concentrandosi su spazi ancestrali. La grotta è antro che accoglie: un ventre minerale formatosi nei millenni, deposito di memoria, luogo fisso da cui osservare il passare di un tempo lento e ciclico. Racconti di luce solare irrompono nel buio. Sculture e installazioni evocano memorie dei luoghi, i contenitori intesi come archetipi richiamano vissuti comunitari stratificati nel tempo. I territori vengono raccontati attraverso gesti e costruzioni generate dai materiali locali.

Adriene Jenik
Canada
ECOtarot @ NAHR
ECOtarot@ NAHR is a continuation and expansion of my ongoing socially-engaged art practice where I offer “climate future” readings in public spaces with my ECOtarot deck. The deck is an artwork in itself made of handmade paper and painted with natural pigments. While in Val Taleggio, I researched minerals and soils in order to evolve my interpretations of the ECOtarot EARTH cards; I developed, tested and refined a new ECOtarot spread based on Soil Horizons; and supported the cohort of fellows and greater NAHR community with ECOtarot readings.
Adriene Jenik (she/they) is an artist, scholar/activist and death doula living in Vancouver, Canada. In her work she develops and shares creative processes that support personal introspection, social critique, community building and cultural transformation. Jenik’s current creative activity spans “data humanization” performances, public ECOtarot readings, a crowd-sourced grief toolkit, and experiments in extreme experiential learning.
Canada
ECOtarot @ NAHR
ECOtarot@ NAHR is a continuation and expansion of my ongoing socially-engaged art practice where I offer “climate future” readings in public spaces with my ECOtarot deck. The deck is an artwork in itself made of handmade paper and painted with natural pigments. While in Val Taleggio, I researched minerals and soils in order to evolve my interpretations of the ECOtarot EARTH cards; I developed, tested and refined a new ECOtarot spread based on Soil Horizons; and supported the cohort of fellows and greater NAHR community with ECOtarot readings.
Adriene Jenik (she/they) is an artist, scholar/activist and death doula living in Vancouver, Canada. In her work she develops and shares creative processes that support personal introspection, social critique, community building and cultural transformation. Jenik’s current creative activity spans “data humanization” performances, public ECOtarot readings, a crowd-sourced grief toolkit, and experiments in extreme experiential learning.
ECOtarot @ NAHR
ECOtarot@ NAHR è la continuazione e l'espansione della mia pratica artistica impegnata nel sociale, in cui offro letture dei tarocchi sul "futuro climatico" in spazi pubblici con il mio mazzo di ECOtarot. Il mazzo è un'opera d'arte in sé, realizzato con carta fatta a mano e dipinto con pigmenti naturali. Durante il mio soggiorno in Val Taleggio, ho condotto ricerche sui minerali e sul suolo per sviluppare nuove interpretazioni delle carte TERRA degli ECOtarot; ho ideato, testato e perfezionato un nuovo mazzo di ECOtarot basato sugli Orizzonti Pedologici ed ho offerto letture di ECOtarot ai partecipanti al programma e all'intera comunità NAHR.
Adriene Jenik è un'artista, studiosa/attivista e doula di fine vita che sviluppa e condivide sistemi e processi creativi a sostegno dell'introspezione personale, della critica sociale, della costruzione di comunità e della trasformazione culturale.

Anne-Kathrin Kühner
Germany
Sedimentary Structures: Networks of Mineral Matter
Sediments are particles of mineral or organic matter that, once bound by a natural binder, become solid rock. This project follows the same principle: the binding element is not only an agent, but also the method of combining materials together through textile techniques. Both textile techniques and mycelium work as binders that turn lines into structures, building networks. Materials were processed into linear hybrid yarns at different solidities: soft, pliable samples such as wool or hay, and solid, earth-based samples mixed with casein, calcite, or mycelium. Humans are part of mineral cycles. We connect them to objects of value, to memories of particular occasions, and to what is essential for life itself. Through material research, accompanied by an exploration of local cultural practices, Sedimentary Structures transfers these concepts into various forms.
Anne-Kathrin Kühner is a textile German designer, working across textiles and material research with an interest in hands-on experimentation, site specific materials and craft traditions. She turns materials into three-dimensional textile structures, exploring the juxtaposition of contrasts and challenging learned patterns of perception. Anne works in collaborations with universities, and is part of the AC+ collective.
Germany
Sedimentary Structures: Networks of Mineral Matter
Sediments are particles of mineral or organic matter that, once bound by a natural binder, become solid rock. This project follows the same principle: the binding element is not only an agent, but also the method of combining materials together through textile techniques. Both textile techniques and mycelium work as binders that turn lines into structures, building networks. Materials were processed into linear hybrid yarns at different solidities: soft, pliable samples such as wool or hay, and solid, earth-based samples mixed with casein, calcite, or mycelium. Humans are part of mineral cycles. We connect them to objects of value, to memories of particular occasions, and to what is essential for life itself. Through material research, accompanied by an exploration of local cultural practices, Sedimentary Structures transfers these concepts into various forms.
Anne-Kathrin Kühner is a textile German designer, working across textiles and material research with an interest in hands-on experimentation, site specific materials and craft traditions. She turns materials into three-dimensional textile structures, exploring the juxtaposition of contrasts and challenging learned patterns of perception. Anne works in collaborations with universities, and is part of the AC+ collective.
Strutture sedimentarie: Networks di materia minerale
I sedimenti sono particelle di materia minerale o organica che, una volta legate da un materiale legante naturale, si trasformano in roccia solida. Questo progetto segue lo stesso principio: l’elemento legante non è solo un agente, ma anche il metodo strutturale per unire i materiali tra loro attraverso tecniche tessili. Sia le tecniche tessili che il micelio fungono da leganti che trasformano le linee in strutture, creando reti di connessioni. I materiali sono poi trasformati in filati ibridi con diversi gradi di consistenza: morbidi e flessibili usando lana o fieno, o solidi se a base di terra e legati con caseina, calcite o micelio. Noi umani facciamo parte dei cicli minerali. Li colleghiamo a oggetti di valore, ai ricordi di occasioni particolari e a ciò che è essenziale per la vita stessa. Attraverso la ricerca sui materiali, accompagnata dall’esplorazione delle pratiche culturali locali, “Strutture sedimentarie” trasferisce questi concetti in varie forme.
Anne-Kathrin Kühner è una designer tessile tedesca, che ricerca i tessuti ed i materiali con un interesse per la sperimentazione pratica, i materiali locali e le tradizioni artigianali. Trasforma i materiali in strutture tessili tridimensionali, esplorando la giustapposizione dei contrasti e sfidando i modelli di percezione acquisiti. Anne collabora con diverse università e fa parte del collettivo AC+.

Mae Lubetkin
USA / France
Another Mountain Sleeps Below
A tidal sea became stone in Val Taleggio. Soft, dark marls crumble with the streams and below the grassy meadows. From the peaks that curtain the valley edges to the striking ravine carved out by the Enna, dolomites and limestones assert themselves. These porous fossil layers became a subterranean meshwork of caves and fluid channels. Minerals move freely below while dissolving rock layers and bubbling back up across miscellaneous sites. On the surface, you can feel the valley vibrate with life. From insect processions to the alpine engine, vibrations are the elusive textures that hold our world together. Moving back in Earth time, over 330 million years ago, another mountain sleeps below. The deepest bedrock is elusive, concealed beneath the soaked sedimentary strata that extend across the valley and rest upon the crust. This crystalline basement holds the floor and cradles all that we know from the valley above.
Another Mountain Sleeps Below offers a glimpse into the subvisible forces and features that compose the Taleggio landscape. By attuning to the silent shifts and trembling bits, we may start to feel the vibratory links that enmesh us with the many layers below and beyond our senses. Through vibratory and sonic field recording techniques, the installation animates suspended rock fragments from different geological strata. The kinetic sculpture gestures toward the ancient, crystalline mountain arch asleep beneath the valley.
Mae Lubetkin is a transmedia artist, writer, and ocean scientist based in Paris and at sea. Their practice-led research attunes to bodies of water and tectonic folds through queer, anti-extractivist, and decolonial frameworks.
USA / France
Another Mountain Sleeps Below
A tidal sea became stone in Val Taleggio. Soft, dark marls crumble with the streams and below the grassy meadows. From the peaks that curtain the valley edges to the striking ravine carved out by the Enna, dolomites and limestones assert themselves. These porous fossil layers became a subterranean meshwork of caves and fluid channels. Minerals move freely below while dissolving rock layers and bubbling back up across miscellaneous sites. On the surface, you can feel the valley vibrate with life. From insect processions to the alpine engine, vibrations are the elusive textures that hold our world together. Moving back in Earth time, over 330 million years ago, another mountain sleeps below. The deepest bedrock is elusive, concealed beneath the soaked sedimentary strata that extend across the valley and rest upon the crust. This crystalline basement holds the floor and cradles all that we know from the valley above.
Another Mountain Sleeps Below offers a glimpse into the subvisible forces and features that compose the Taleggio landscape. By attuning to the silent shifts and trembling bits, we may start to feel the vibratory links that enmesh us with the many layers below and beyond our senses. Through vibratory and sonic field recording techniques, the installation animates suspended rock fragments from different geological strata. The kinetic sculpture gestures toward the ancient, crystalline mountain arch asleep beneath the valley.
Mae Lubetkin is a transmedia artist, writer, and ocean scientist based in Paris and at sea. Their practice-led research attunes to bodies of water and tectonic folds through queer, anti-extractivist, and decolonial frameworks.
Un'altra montagna dorme sotto
Una marea marina si fece pietra in Val Taleggio. Le marne scure e morbide si sgretolano con i torrenti e sotto i prati erbosi. Dalle cime che fanno da quinta ai bordi della valle fino alla gola imponente scavata dall'Enna, dolomie e calcari si impongono. Questi strati fossili e porosi sono diventati un intreccio sotterraneo di grotte e canali d'acqua. I minerali si muovono liberi nel sottosuolo, dissolvono gli strati di roccia e riaffiorano gorgogliando in luoghi disparati. In superficie, si sente la valle vibrare di vita. Dalle processioni di insetti al motore alpino, le vibrazioni sono le trame sfuggenti che tengono insieme il nostro mondo. Risalendo il tempo profondo della Terra, oltre 330 milioni di anni fa, un'altra montagna dorme sotto. Il basamento più profondo è sfuggente, celato sotto la successione sedimentaria imbevuta che si estende per la valle e posa sulla crosta. Questo basamento cristallino regge il fondo e culla tutto ciò che conosciamo della valle soprastante.
Un'altra montagna dorme sotto offre uno scorcio sulle forze e sui tratti subvisibili che compongono il paesaggio taleggino. Sintonizzandoci sugli spostamenti silenziosi e sui frammenti tremanti, possiamo iniziare a sentire i legami vibratori che ci avviluppano agli strati molteplici al di sotto e oltre i nostri sensi. Attraverso tecniche di registrazione sul campo, vibratorie e sonore, l'installazione anima frammenti di roccia sospesi e composti da strati geologici diversi. La scultura cinetica allude all'antico arco montuoso cristallino addormentato sotto la valle. La vibrazione diventa una soglia verso le forze ambientali che tremano attraverso strati e scale.
Mae Lubetkin è un artista transmediale, scrittorə e oceanografə con base a Parigi e in mare. La sua ricerca pratica si accorda a corpi d’acqua, pieghe tettoniche e mondi digitali attraverso approcci queer, anti-estrattivisti e decoloniali.
Sophia Riordan
USA / Portugal
Mineral Maps
Minerals are the fabric of our existence: they facilitate every breath, every step. They are ancient beings, carrying the life story. Holding the perspective of deep time, attention enlivens that which seemed inanimate. Mineral maps trace these stories through extended encounters of stillness (listening), movement (becoming), and making (recording). Through site-specific performance and installation, fragments of communication imagine our entangled connections. Crochet, knotting, and looping become recording processes, mirroring the intuitive and embodied encounters, and imagining a language for which we can trace mineral relationships. Site specific works become a map: a mirror of the movement and ongoing unfolding of the human with the more-than-human world.
Sophia Riordan, born in San Francisco, USA, lives and works in Sintra, Portugal. Working across sculpture, installation, and performance, she uses string, thread, and fibers to construct webs: physical and conceptual, that explore the intricacies of human and more-than-human relationships and the invisible structures that we are all woven into.
USA / Portugal
Mineral Maps
Minerals are the fabric of our existence: they facilitate every breath, every step. They are ancient beings, carrying the life story. Holding the perspective of deep time, attention enlivens that which seemed inanimate. Mineral maps trace these stories through extended encounters of stillness (listening), movement (becoming), and making (recording). Through site-specific performance and installation, fragments of communication imagine our entangled connections. Crochet, knotting, and looping become recording processes, mirroring the intuitive and embodied encounters, and imagining a language for which we can trace mineral relationships. Site specific works become a map: a mirror of the movement and ongoing unfolding of the human with the more-than-human world.
Sophia Riordan, born in San Francisco, USA, lives and works in Sintra, Portugal. Working across sculpture, installation, and performance, she uses string, thread, and fibers to construct webs: physical and conceptual, that explore the intricacies of human and more-than-human relationships and the invisible structures that we are all woven into.
Mappe Minerali
I minerali sono il tessuto stesso della nostra esistenza: rendono possibile ogni respiro, ogni passo. Sono esseri antichi, portatori della storia della vita. Attraverso la prospettiva del tempo profondo, l’attenzione dà vita a ciò che sembrava inanimato. “Mineral maps” ripercorre queste storie attraverso incontri prolungati di quiete (ascolto), movimento (divenire) e creazione (documentazione). Attraverso performance e installazioni site-specific, frammenti di comunicazione danno forma alle nostre connessioni intrecciate. L’uncinetto, l’annodatura e la creazione di anelli diventano processi di documentazione, rispecchiando gli incontri intuitivi e incarnati e immaginando un linguaggio attraverso il quale possiamo tracciare le relazioni minerali. Le opere site-specific diventano una mappa: uno specchio del movimento e del continuo dispiegarsi del mondo umano con quello più-che-umano.
Sophia Riordan nata a San Francisco, USA, vive e lavora a Sintra, in Portogallo. Attraverso la scultura, l’installazione e la performance, utilizza corde, fili e fibre per costruire reti: fisiche e concettuali, che esplorano le complessità delle relazioni umane e non umane, nonché le strutture invisibili in cui siamo tutti intrecciati.
Erin Single
Virginia, USA
Snail Dance: Mineral Worlding in Val Taleggio
The central research question driving the project is: How can we collaborate with minerals in performance-based artistic processes with digital media to tell stories that generate empathy for the landscape? Through video performance, I developed a multimedia installation with video projection, photographs, and live performance that explores a character’s relationship with the mineral calcite, as it is entangled with themes of inner beauty, snails, loneliness, and the extractive nature of the beauty industry.
Erin Single (b. Richmond, Virginia) is a media artist and educator who creates installations, short films, live performances, and interactive art. She is currently Assistant Professor of Digital Art at Middle Georgia State University in Macon, Georgia, USA.
Virginia, USA
Snail Dance: Mineral Worlding in Val Taleggio
The central research question driving the project is: How can we collaborate with minerals in performance-based artistic processes with digital media to tell stories that generate empathy for the landscape? Through video performance, I developed a multimedia installation with video projection, photographs, and live performance that explores a character’s relationship with the mineral calcite, as it is entangled with themes of inner beauty, snails, loneliness, and the extractive nature of the beauty industry.
Erin Single (b. Richmond, Virginia) is a media artist and educator who creates installations, short films, live performances, and interactive art. She is currently Assistant Professor of Digital Art at Middle Georgia State University in Macon, Georgia, USA.
Danza della lumaca: un mondo minerale in Val Taleggio
La domanda di ricerca centrale che guida il progetto è: come possiamo collaborare con i minerali in processi artistici performativi attraverso i media digitali per raccontare storie che generano empatia per il paesaggio? Attraverso una serie di performance, ho sviluppato un'installazione multimediale con proiezioni video, fotografie e performance dal vivo che esplorano la relazione di un personaggio con il minerale calcite, intrecciandosi con temi come la bellezza interiore, le lumache, la solitudine e la natura estrattiva dell'industria cosmetica.
Erin Single nata a Richmond, Virginia, è un'artista multimediale e docente che crea installazioni, cortometraggi, performance dal vivo e arte interattiva. Attualmente è professoressa assistente di Arte Digitale presso la Middle Georgia State University di Macon, in Georgia, USA.
2026 Alt Residents

This project is funded by the European Union and implemented by the Goethe-Institut through Culture Moves Europe.
This work was produced with the financial assistance of the European Union. The views expressed herein can in no way be taken to reflect the official opinion of the European Union.
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Lucia Rivero
Argentina / Spain
Mineral Landscapes: Edaphology of Transmutation in Val Taleggio
A situated artistic project rooted in walking, close observation and experimentation as ways of creating and relating to a place, where time and landscape shape the work. I gather stones, soils and plant matter across the valley, and transmute them into mineral pigments, inks and dyes, learning the colours and textures specific to this territory. This knowledge translates into painting and into textile works on raw cotton and reclaimed cloth. Through exchange with NAHR, the resident artists and the valley's community, I have come to understand transmutation as more than a change of matter — from dolomites born of ancient sea organisms to the Norwegian spruce (Picea abies) that acidifies the soil to make its own ground all affects each other and provokes changes. Similarly this happens to us, humans. It changes us, and the stories we carry and share in community.
Lucia Rivero is an Argentinian artist, based in Barcelona. Her practice inhabits spaces of encounter, between bodies, affective memories, other-than-human beings, and multidirectional landscapes. She deepened her practice through biomaterials creation, and scientific illustration. She has participated in international groups and solo exhibitions.
Argentina / Spain
Mineral Landscapes: Edaphology of Transmutation in Val Taleggio
A situated artistic project rooted in walking, close observation and experimentation as ways of creating and relating to a place, where time and landscape shape the work. I gather stones, soils and plant matter across the valley, and transmute them into mineral pigments, inks and dyes, learning the colours and textures specific to this territory. This knowledge translates into painting and into textile works on raw cotton and reclaimed cloth. Through exchange with NAHR, the resident artists and the valley's community, I have come to understand transmutation as more than a change of matter — from dolomites born of ancient sea organisms to the Norwegian spruce (Picea abies) that acidifies the soil to make its own ground all affects each other and provokes changes. Similarly this happens to us, humans. It changes us, and the stories we carry and share in community.
Lucia Rivero is an Argentinian artist, based in Barcelona. Her practice inhabits spaces of encounter, between bodies, affective memories, other-than-human beings, and multidirectional landscapes. She deepened her practice through biomaterials creation, and scientific illustration. She has participated in international groups and solo exhibitions.
Paesaggi minerali: edafologia della trasmutazione in Val Taleggio
Un progetto artistico radicato nel camminare, nell'osservazione attenta e nella sperimentazione come modi di creare e di relazionarsi a un luogo, dove il tempo e il paesaggio danno forma all'opera. Attraverso la valle raccolgo pietre, terra e materia vegetale, e le trasformo in pigmenti minerali, inchiostri e tinture, imparando i colori e le diverse consistenze materiche specifiche di questo territorio. Tutto questo confluisce nella pittura e in opere tessili su cotone grezzo e tessuti riutilizzati. Attraverso lo scambio con NAHR, con gli artisti residenti e la comunità della valle, sono giunta a comprendere la trasmutazione come qualcosa di più di un cambiamento della materia — dalle dolomie nate da antichi organismi marini, all'abete rosso (Picea abies) che rende il suolo acido per crearsi il proprio terreno, tutto e’ cambiamento, anche in noi, e nelle storie che condividiamo e custodiamo insieme.
Lucia Rivero è un'artista argentina, con base a Barcellona. La sua pratica abita spazi di incontro, tra corpi, memorie affettive, esseri altro-che-umani, e paesaggi multidirezionali. Ha approfondito la sua pratica attraverso la creazione di biomateriali e l'illustrazione scientifica. Ha partecipato a mostre collettive e personali a livello internazionale.
2026 Alt Residency
Ruth Allen, Artist - Author - Ecopsychoterapist - Geology / United Kingdom
Wujin “Philip” Cho, Student / South Korea, USA
Brita d’Agostino, Artist - Designer - Educator / USA
Alexis Elton, Interdisciplinary Artist / USA
Irena Kennedy, Artist, New Zealand
Valentina Martos Hernández, Mexico City, Mexico
Jamie Moon, Performing artist / Pueblo, Colorado, USA
Thao Anh Nguyen, Artist - Architect / USA, Vietnam
Rodrigo Padilla Madrazo, Mexico, Netherlands, Spain
Monica Peralta, Visual Artist/ Argentina
MacKenzie Perras, Material Artist / Canada
Sara Schroeter, Theatre, Regina, Canada
Gerdien Wolthaus Paauw, Photographer / The Netherlands
2026 Visitors
Mira Borghs, Film Maker, Belgium
Dani Blanco Albert, Trumpet Musician of Eco Theatre 2026, UK/Spain
Laura Spagliardi, Anthropologist, Italy/UK
Marvin Heine, Antropologist, NAHR Fellow 2024 , Berlin, Germany
Lisa van Heyden, Architecture & Spatial Design, Berlin Germany
NAH_Convegno June
Fabrizio Berra, Geologist, Universita’ Statale di Milano / Milano, Italy
Umberto Locati, Geologist / Bergamo, Italy
Elena Eustacchio, Naturalist / Bergamo, Italy
Marco Chieregatti, Geologist / Milano, Italy
Daniele Palmieri, Etnobotanist / Milano, Italy
Venanzio Asperti, Artisan / Bergamo, Italy
Gloria Ramello, Naturalist / Bergamo, Italy
Juan Carlos Usellini, Artisan / Bergamo, Italy

Enoch Ma
NAHR California Spring
Long Beach, California
Corporal Rite
The sculpture is a participatory shrine exploring diatoms’ transformation into rock and fuel, connecting Santa Ynez’s geological history to broader questions of ecology, inheritance, and being.
Enoch Ma is a Los Angeles-based sculptor and builder whose experiential installations study overlooked ways of being across natural systems.
Long Beach, California
Corporal Rite
The sculpture is a participatory shrine exploring diatoms’ transformation into rock and fuel, connecting Santa Ynez’s geological history to broader questions of ecology, inheritance, and being.
Enoch Ma is a Los Angeles-based sculptor and builder whose experiential installations study overlooked ways of being across natural systems.

Sonja
Schenk
NAHR California Fall
Light for the Sun: Likeness, Dummy, Dupe
I plan to collect information on the mineral formations of the Santa Ynez valley and create facsimiles out of paper in the studio. The result will be a series of faux rocks, each with a twin that remains undisturbed in nature.
Sonja Schenk is a multi-disciplinary artist from Los Angeles who explores the intersection of humankind and the natural world through transformative processes.
Light for the Sun: Likeness, Dummy, Dupe
I plan to collect information on the mineral formations of the Santa Ynez valley and create facsimiles out of paper in the studio. The result will be a series of faux rocks, each with a twin that remains undisturbed in nature.
Sonja Schenk is a multi-disciplinary artist from Los Angeles who explores the intersection of humankind and the natural world through transformative processes.

