Unlike All Other Empires (for Edward Said) with Runo Lagomarsino

Runo Lagomarsino (1977, Lund, Sweden). Lives and works in Malmö, Sweden.

Language, geography, historiography are themes that Lagomarsino revisits in his artistic practice, using materials that often evoke memories or a relationship to something, only to ask us to reflect on the conditions enabling these connections.

Lagomarsino’s work points toward the gaps and cracks in our explanation models highlighting language’s precarious foundation. With precise and poetic displacements, he constructs frictions, fractures of blind spots from where to tell other stories. Keenly aware of the conceptual implications of a range of materials and medium, Lagomarsino moves seamlessly between collage, drawing, installation, performance, and video.

Recent solo exhibitions include: We are here because you were there, Base/Progetti per l’arte, Florence (2023), The Square Between the Walls, Lunds Konsthall (2021), The Faculty of Seeing, Moderna Museet, Stockholm (2019), We are each other’s air, Francesca Minini, Milan (2019), EntreMundos, Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas (2018), La Neblina, Galeria Avenida da India, Lisbon (2018).

Selected group exhibitions: The TV trampoline: from children’s television to contemporary art and literature, Bildmuseet, Umeå (2022), The four cardinal points are three: the south and the north, CRAC Alsace, Altkirch (2022), Ninguém teria acreditado, Pina Estação, São Paulo (2021), Deep Sounding-Hystory as Multiple Narratives, daadgalerie Berlin (2019), BRAZIL. Knife in the Flesh, PAC, Milan (2018), A Universal History of Infamy, LACMA, Los Angeles, (2017), La Terra Inquieta, Fondazione Trussardi, Milano (2017), Really Useful Knowledge, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid (2014) and Under the Same Sun, Guggenheim Museum, New York (2014).
He also partecipated in the Guangzhou Triennial and the Gwangju Biennial (both 2008); the Venice Biennale (2011 and 2015); the Istanbul Biennial (2011); the São Paulo Art Biennial (2012); Prospect New Orleans (2017); the Gothenburg Biennial (2015 and 2021) and the Ural Biennial (2021). In 2019 he was awarded the Friends of Modern Museet Sculpture Prize and was DAAD artist in residence in Berlin.