Rebuilding Beirut with Pride

Niccolo Binda’s works explore the everyday themes of living in 21st century society. Navigating nostalgia, branding, desire and how we form connections with and fetishize cultural artefacts. The pieces question how corporations and individuals attach themselves to symbols, causes and products to present themselves to the public.
By appropriating the visual language of suburbia, the urban environment, high and low culture, corporate logos and advertising, the works feel like a highly covetable consumer product. Using recognisable symbols and industrial manufacturing processes, the works achieve a similar resonance to that of a popular brand or iconic children’s toy. They have a warm, soft, hazy façade. However, underneath the polished surface, a mildly depressing reality lurks and ideas of desire, the cyclic nature of 21st century culture and the emptiness of the promises made by consumer culture are being explored.
 
Niccolo Binda (b.1996) is an Italian born artist living and working in London, UK.

Education: 2015 – 2016 Foundation Diploma, Camberwell College of Arts (UAL); London 2016 – 2020 BA (Hons) Drawing, Camberwell College of the Arts (UAL), London 2017 – 2018 Diploma, Sculpture and Transmedial Space, Kunstuniversität, Linz, Austria.

Exhibitions: 2021, Squeezebox, Collective Ending, London, UK, 2020; 5 years, Plastic Murs, Valencia, Spain 2020; Leave only traces, Copeland Park Gallery, London, 2020; System Failure, Plastic Murs, Valencia, Spain 2020, When Spiders Unite, Daniel Raphael Gallery, London, UK; Residencies/ Awards: 2020 – 2021, The Vanguard Prize Residency, London, UK

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