Fabio Valerio Tibollo (IT)
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Italian artist Fabio Valerio Tibollo works across film, experimental cinema, and audiovisual installation, creating works that move between narrative, memory, and political reflection. His video project s/hE (Jean) unfolds as an anarchist non-binary coming-of-age fable.
Beginning on the northern coast of Brittany in 1970 and extending toward New York during Occupy Wall Street in 2011, the work traces a life shaped by shifting identities, emotional transformation, and encounters with different social and political realities.
Across the narrative, the protagonist moves through rural communes, student uprisings, underground nightlife, and unstable relationships, confronting both masculine and feminine models of behavior.
Tibollo constructs these episodes less as linear storytelling and more as fragmented emotional landscapes, where memory, ideology, and personal identity continuously overlap. The first episode centers on the protagonist’s adolescence in Meneham, a remote coastal village of fishermen, farmers, and seaweed harvesters. Tibollo approaches this world through slow observation and poetic imagery, allowing architecture, landscape, and gesture to carry symbolic weight.
Rather than offering fixed conclusions, s/hE (Jean) explores identity as something fluid, constructed, and constantly negotiated. Through experimental structure and emotionally charged imagery, the work creates a contemplative space between fiction, memory, and social critique.
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