Medina Duchini Zullo
About
Medina Duchini Zullo metabolizes the process of metamorphosis as a social metaphor, using materiality and relationality to investigate interspecies phenomena within ever-evolving contemporary ecologies. With a background in investigative journalism and experience cohabitating with honeybees indoors since 2013, their practice hybridizes socio-biology, post-structuralism, and visual arts, fostering unresolvable questions and offering more-than-human perspectives.
A labour-intensive creative process integrates the cooperation of diverse organisms, industrial materials, algorithms, and organic waste from apiculture: through living sculpture, video, and multimedia installations, Medina allows new habitats to emerge for the audience, to inhabit by their impermanent character.
Their current work investigates feral practices and cyber-feminism by embodying care and repeating mechanical gestures as an ethnographic machine that connects subsystems and archives.
Medina is an Italian-born artist based between London and Tuscany, MFA graduate student for the academic year 23/24 at the Royal College of Art. She previously received an MA in Communication Studies from Università degli Studi di Perugia (2005) and studied Painting at the Fine Arts Academies of Perugia and of Rome (2015-19). Awarded the O.R.A prize in 2018 for the artistic research, her work has been exhibited internationally, among the others: Month of Photography, Colorado Photographic Arts Center, (Denver, Us, 2020); Galerie Kub (Leipzig, De, 2021), Palazzo Collicola Arti Visive (Spoleto, It, 2022). Medina is member of the SustainLab RCA, a sustainability society at the Royal College of Art.
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