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Agnes Questionmark is awarded the inaugural visual Artist
in-Residence
Summer Residency — July 2025

WHITESPACE Projects/Napoli launches its programming with a young, disruptive, and unconventional artist, working in the city for the first time.

Agnes Questionmark holds a leading position in the international art scene due to the significance of the themes she addresses and the expressive originality that defines her work. Her interdisciplinary practice—spanning performance, sculpture, video, and installation—investigates the limits of identity and embodiment through long-durational works that challenge conventional notions of gender, humanity, and species. Performances such as CHM13hTERT (2023) and TRANSGENESIS (2021) create immersive spaces where the body becomes a site of transformation and political resistance.

Her work explores human boundaries through genetic experiments, surgical interventions, and artificial reproductive processes, unsettling fixed definitions of the self. By queering power structures between doctor and patient, human and machine, she critiques the systems that pathologize and discipline non-normative bodies, turning her own body into a living experiment that defies classification.

She has exhibited internationally at the 60th Venice Biennale, Centre d’Art Contemporain Geneva, MAXXI Museum Rome, the 14th Gwangju Biennale, Malta Biennale in Valletta, Mimosa House in London, Casa Flash Art in Milan, and König Galerie in Berlin. Her writing has appeared in NERO Magazine and was presented at ICA Milano.

During this residency, AQ will work simultaneously on her project for the 18th edition of the Rome Quadriennale of Art, titled Fantastica, invited by the curator Alessandra Troncone, and on her first site-specific solo exhibition in Naples at the WPN space. It is an ambitious and visionary research project that connects the two events through a series of stages across the city of Naples, accompanied by documented notebooks that form part of the exhibition corpus for the Quadriennale and the site-specific work created by the artist for Whitespace.

Curated by:
Alessandra Troncone, Guest Curator
Concetta Luise, Associate Curator

GUEST CURATOR:
Alessandra Troncone is an art historian, curator and a Ph.D. in History of Art. She is currently a Professor of History of Art at the Academy of Fine Arts in Naples and a curator of the 18th edition of La Quadriennale di Roma, the largest exhibition devoted to Italian contemporary art. Since 2018, she has been the co-founder and Artistic Co-Director of Underneath the Arches, a program for contemporary art that takes place at the archaeological site of Acquedotto Augusteo del Serino in Naples. In 2019 she co-curated the 12th Kaunas Biennale in Lithuania. Her curatorial projects have been taking place at a number of art institutions and galleries, including the Madre Museum in Naples, the Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea in Rome, Fondazione Arnaldo Pomodoro in Milan, Fondazione Morra in Naples, Izolyatsia in Kyiv. She authored and edited several articles and essays in art magazines, academic journals, books and catalogues. She has been a member of IKT–International Association of Curators of Contemporary Art since 2018.
www.alessandratroncone.com

More Info:
www.agnesquestionmark.com
www.quadriennalediroma.org

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Leisa Loan, American Poet, is awarded the first poet-in-residence, to expands her project on the censorship of the diaries of antonia pozzi (1919-1938)
Summer Residency — august 2025

WHITESPACE Projects/Napoli welcomes a special literary project, rooted in poetry and translation, while navigating themes of censorship, destruction and violence against women and the act of creation.

Loan states about her ongoing project:
From the moment I discovered the severity of the censorship enacted on Antonia Pozzi’s poetry, my translation project morphed into one of legacy reconstruction as well as an investigation of violence in the creation process, violence against the female body, and the ethical questions at the center of creation in physical or written form. While reckoning with the impacts of this censorship and the physicality of the erasures imposed on her journals, my work began to take the form of what I am calling “sculptural poetics”, or poetry that aims to replicate in writing the physical act of sculpture—removal as a creative process, as well as what is lost in extraction processes.  In my poetry I am aiming to imitate the violence of removal and erasure and how this process mimics the motions of sculpture and excavating language as if it were stone.  

Speaking with scholars at the archives, Loan discovered that after Antonia Pozzi’s tragic suicide at the age of 26, Pozzi’s father had severely edited and censored her work before publishing it.  Thick black marker made entire entries illegible, pages were ripped out; her father’s interventions had stripped the work of its core sensuality while obscuring her struggles with mental health as well as her ever present and anguished pull between maternal desires and the ambitions of a female artist in the 1930s.  What remained were still highly valuable and wise-beyond-their-years works of poetry, but what was missing felt vital to understanding Pozzi as a poet and as a woman. 

Info:
Curriculum Vitae 
NAHR Fellow 2025
Community Engagement 2024

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DIRECTOR’S GUEST:
Nick Flynn — nominated Leisa Loan for the first poet in residence.

Nick Flynn — writer, playwright, poet has published twelve books, most recently This Is the Night Our House Will Catch Fire (2020), a hybrid memoir; and Stay: threads, collaborations, and conversations (2020), which documents twenty-five years of his collaborations with artists, filmmakers, and composers. He is also the author of five collections of poetry, including I Will Destroy You (2019). He has been awarded fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the Library of Congress, and is on the creative writing faculty at the University of Houston. His acclaimed memoir, Another Bullshit Night in Suck City (2004), was made into a film starring Robert DeNiro, and has been translated into fifteen languages.

Info:
https://nickflynn.org/
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