FEDE FANTINI

I work at the intersection of public space, food, ecology, and collective storytelling. Through cooking sessions, participatory ceremonies, walks, installations, and speculative narratives, I create spaces where memory, transmission, and fiction can intertwine.I am particularly interested in site specific and collaborative approach, and in blurring the frontiers between old and new, tradition and future, truth and imagination. Many of my projects exist in an ambiguous space between reality and fiction: fake family archives, invented festivities, therapeutic sessions for dying objects, or evolving recipes shaped by urban ecologies. In my work, fiction and reality are not opposed, but rather help one another. Let’s say that I have inherited my grandmother’s disregard for factual accuracy. Deeply influenced by informal forms of transmission, especially those inherited through family stories, cooking practices, and oral narratives - I approach art as a playful, collective practice to bring into existence new ways for inhabiting the world.