Chiara Prodi

Chiara Prodi is an artist, performer, and cultural facilitator based in the Apennines, where she lives in a sprawling house with six cats and four humans. Together they form Habitat, an inland frontier cult(r)ural center. Trained in visual arts and sculpture, her work has evolved toward the processuality and performativity of practices related to matter. Since 2018, she has collaborated with the Canadian collective Mammalian Diving Reflex as a director, leading workshops and masterclasses on participatory and relational practices. Her work spans multiple roles: performer, set and costume designer, and whisperer. In 2020, she joined Neutopica, a nomadic art residency, together with a group of artists and friends. She lived in Brussels, where she learned about the textile practices, the transformations of dyeing and tailoring, which she describes as "working with skin”. She was bitten by a viper and snakes appears to her.