Fabrizio Ajello

(Palermo, 1973) lives and works between Florence and Palermo.

Fabrizio Ajello is an artist and independent researcher who reflects on and intervenes in various media regarding the dynamics of cultural models, particularly investigating the themes of the sacred, Vanitas, individual/collective memory, and the relationship between material and virtual space. Over the years, he has reinvented the use of traditional mediums such as drawing, photography, and sculpture to create site-specific interventions and installation works. Currently, his focus is on the relationship between dream processes and models of interaction and remediation through TTI applications (Text to Image software), as demonstrated by his recent residency at La Portineria – Progetti per l’Arte Contemporanea (Florence, 2022) and the exhibition IED The Tilt of Time (Florence, 2023), alongside artist and philosopher Francesco D’Isa. In 2017, he participated in the project The Ground Tour at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna. In 2013, he created the documentary San Fratello, dedicated to the Easter practices of the Jewish community of San Fratello, Sicily. In 2008, he took part in the N.EST project at the Madre Museum in Naples, presenting a double video projection on the history of the port area of Vigliena. In the same year, he co-founded the public art project Spazi Docili, based in Florence, alongside artist Christian Costa. In recent years, Spazi Docili has conducted field investigations, urban dérives, workshops, exhibitions, residencies, and talks. From 2005 to 2007, together with curators Barbara D’Ambrosio and Costanza Meli and artist Christian Costa, he worked on the public art project Progetto Isole, based in Palermo. In 2007, he produced an experimental documentary titled Vucciria (winner of the Solunto Film Festival in 2009), focused on the Vucciria market in Palermo, viewed through the perspective and public art works of Austrian artist Uwe Jaentsch.

Fabrizio Ajello has participated in numerous international exhibitions and events, including the Break 2.4 Festival in Ljubljana, Synthetic Zero at BronxArtSpace in New York, Moving Sculpture in the Public Realm in Cardiff, Hosted Athens in Athens, The Entropy of Art in Wrocław, and Manifesta 12 in Palermo. He collaborates with the magazine Meme Cult and MADE IN MIND, and some of his contributions have appeared in Artribune, Roots and Routes, Nesxt, Sumac Space art platform, L’Indiscreto, and Impeached. Magazine. In 2024, his first essay, L’immagine leggera, was published by Castelvecchi publishing house.