PROJECTS
Internationally recognized for her conceptually rigorous and materially sensitive practice, Moccia works across video, installation, sculpture, and performance. Her research-driven approach investigates the subtle mechanics of power and the embodied experience of time, space, affect, and subjectivity. Drawing on feminist theory, social history, and sensorial perception, she examines how emotional and perceptive states are shaped by structural forces and intimate geographies.
Her work has been presented at Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo (Turin), ICA (Milano), Museo del Novecento (Florence), OGR Torino, IIC Bruxelles, and Magazzino Italian Art (New York). In 2024, she represented Italy at the 15th Gwangju Biennale with Ministries of Loneliness, a multimedia installation exploring how contemporary neoliberal societies perceive, measure, and govern loneliness as both a political and emotional condition.
The WHITESPACE Projects / Napoli residency will be base camp for Moccia during the development and filming of the Positionality Statement project, a non-fiction film rooted in a personal and historical reconnection with Naples — her city of origin. Co-produced by Careof with the support of WHITESPACE Projects / Napoli and Collezione Agovino, it will be presented at her upcoming solo exhibition at Temple Bar Gallery + Studios, Dublin.
From the moment she discovered the severity of the censorship enacted on Antonia Pozzi's poetry, Loan's translation project morphed into one of legacy reconstruction — 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. Her work began to take the form of what she calls "sculptural poetics," poetry that aims to replicate in writing the physical act of sculpture — removal as a creative process, and what is lost in extraction.
Speaking with scholars at the archives, Loan discovered that after Pozzi's tragic suicide at the age of 26, her father had severely edited and censored her work before publishing it. Thick black marker made entire entries illegible, pages were ripped out — his interventions stripped the work of its core sensuality while obscuring her struggles with mental health and her anguished pull between maternal desires and the ambitions of a female artist in the 1930s.
Director's Guest: Nick Flynn — writer, playwright, poet — nominated Leisa Loan for the first poet in residence.
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.
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.
During this residency, AQ will work simultaneously on her project for the 18th edition of the Rome Quadriennale of Art, titled Fantastica, invited by curator Alessandra Troncone, and on her first site-specific solo exhibition in Naples at the WPN space.
Curated by: Alessandra Troncone, Guest Curator & Concetta Luise, Associate Curator