About Chloe
My practice moves across installation, painting and performance. Starting from a chaotic context, I move through space: I superimpose, cut out, and reassemble fragments that seem incompatible and that chase each other in a balancing act. I am drawn to the imperfection, the error that becomes part of language. These signs become traces, physical memory and the pictorial gesture a form of writing. I’m building a visual alphabet based on disturbance, to fuel a sensorial experience.
Matericity is the only thing holding us back in the real world, reminding us that we are just pulsating body, and living flesh. From this dynamic movement that generates answers, questions also arise that I don’t know the answers to, so I confidently venture in this certain uncertainty.
Chloe Motolese (2004) attends the Academy of Fine Arts in Venice and lives and works between Turin and Venice. For alternating periods she worked alongside the artists Ciro Palumbo and Akira Zakamoto, exponents of contemporary figurative art. She contributed to the creation of several murals, both in Italy and Portugal. She took part in an artistic residency aboard the Vaporetto dell’Immaginario in Venice, culminating in a final performance. In 2024 she collaborated at the Venice Art Biennale, inside the Canada Pavilion, supporting the creation of the exhibited work. In 2025 she presented the installation Luoghi precari, the result of the collaboration with Vinicio Tronca, as part of the Over-Pinking exhibition at Spazio Spuma, Giudecca (VE). More recently she participated in the group exhibition Appunti..., the result of a workshop led by the artist Pier Paolo Calzolari at Crea, Cantieri del Contemporaneo, also in Giudecca. She was also selected in the AVAPO Venezia 2025 tender, selling one of her works at a Christie’s auction.