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Giacomo Cerlesi is born in Milan. After graduating from high school, he lived for a year in the United States, Boston and New York, and began to take a serious interest in film and poetry. Back in Italy, he obtained a degree in Visual Arts and Theatre at the IUAV University of Venice. In his third year, he went on exchange to study at the Beaux-Arts de Paris, in Elsa Cayo's studio. He enrolled the following year and obtained his DNSAP in July 2017. Since 2019, he has been enrolled in a thesis at the “Centre de recherche sur les Arts et le Langage”, at EHESS, with a project on the novel P.P. Pasolini's Pétrole.

"Behind my work, I think, is the idea of a dialogue. In the primary sense of logos, discourse-language, which passes, dia, through. Through language. To pass through is always to hurt, to share, to make a difference. An image, a word, can say more than they do. 

At the same time, the meaning keeps collapsing in silence. The world outside us never seems to be definitely there for our eyes and ears. What remains of this impossible and always hopeful relationship, of this encounter between the opaque resistance of the landscape and an individual, seems to me to be something that is not far from the notion of style: of the how. 

Staging stories whose meaning is destined to remain suspended, like an interrupted sentence or a prayer without an objective, helps me to tell the story of a paradox, the desire for an understanding or, perhaps, the possession of a world. A world on which one dreams of being able to cast a total gaze. The failure of the gaze seems to me to reveal something much more interesting of the totality: an idea of style, planted in the heart of a narrative like a stylus that shares and writes."