Bianca Bondi

Bianca Bondi (1986, South Africa) is a visual artist based in Paris. Her practice involves the activation or elevation of mundane objects through the use of chemical reactions. The materials she works with are chosen for their transformative potential or intrinsic properties, emphasizing the interconnectedness of things in the world, their transience, and revealing the cycles of life and death. Her work has been exhibited at Lafayette Anticipations (2023), Fondation Louis Vuitton (2021), Casino Luxembourg (2020), and as part of the Biennales de Lyon 2019, Busan 2020, and Thaïlande 2021.

Her residency project is inspired by the concept of rewilding, a branch of conservation biology. By working with local actors, Bianca Bondi’s main objective would be to broaden her visual arts language, which already incorporates life at the molecular level, to include other, more developed living elements. She would like to deepen her research into Roman antiquity and sanctuaries in particular, to experiment with new immersive installations encouraging the presence of life among forms inspired by the past. At the same time, she intends to work on her first monograph.