LUMINOUS MATTER

Bianca Arnold (Turin, 1997) is a visual artist, from photography to video through painting, and a researcher specialized in Women and Gender studies. In 2017 she travelled between the United States and Ecuador, where she lived with the Kitchwa community of Salasaka, in the Andes. She studied Anthropology, Religions and Oriental Civilizations at the University of Bologna, and experimental cinema and documentary in Padova. She graduated in GEMMA master's degree in Women and Gender Studies at the University of Bologna and Granada. With her works she has exhibited in London, Budapest, Turin, Bologna, Reggio Emilia and Ferrara. She has published Pangea, a collection of short stories. Her work deals with desire and failure, organicity and blurriness, in a messy multi-material texture of images and words. She currently lives in Palermo and is enrolled in the CSC - Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia, Scuola Nazionale di Cinema.

Moss Berke (New York, 1995) is a writer, researcher and artist who specializes in the expansive field of Gender Studies. Moss is a multi-media and interdisciplinary artist who blends textile work, poetics, video, tattooing, and activism in her art-making practice. Her work is a site of experimentation with themes of grief and desire, more-than-human relationalities, non-normative temporalities and self-authoring practices. Moss graduated from Bard College in 2017 with a degree in Environmental Studies and a focus in Gender Studies. In 2023 she completed her master’s degree in Gender Studies from Utrecht University and the University of Granada, as an Erasmus Mundus Scholar supported in full by the European Commission. Upon graduating Moss’ won the honorable mention for the Helene Phoa thesis prize for her research on ecological grief and queer temporalities. Moss’ written work has been published in Almanac Journal of Trans* Poetics, Simulacrum Magazine, Soapbox Journal of Cultural Analysis, Bullshit Lit, and elsewhere. She currently lives and makes in Palermo, Italy.