Designers Davide Quayola

Quayola, a Roman artist born in 1982, uses technology as a lens to explore tensions and balances between seemingly opposing forces: the real and the artificial, the figurative and the abstract, the old and the new. Through immersive installations, he engages with canonical imagery and reinterprets it through contemporary technology. Landscape painting, classical sculpture, and iconography are some of the historical aesthetics that serve as starting points for Quayola’s hybrid compositions. His diverse practice, entirely based on custom software, also includes audiovisual performances, immersive video installations, sculptures, and works on paper.

His work has been presented and exhibited at numerous prestigious institutions worldwide, including the V&A Museum in London, the Park Avenue Armory in New York, the National Art Center in Tokyo, UCCA in Beijing, the How Art Museum in Shanghai, SeMA in Seoul, Palais de Tokyo in Paris, Ars Electronica in Linz, the Sonar Festival in Barcelona, and the Sundance Film Festival.

A frequent collaborator in musical projects, Quayola has worked with composers, orchestras, and musicians including the London Contemporary Orchestra, the Orchestre National de Bordeaux, Ensemble Intercontemporain, Vanessa Wagner, Jamie XX, Mira Calix, Plaid, and Tale Of Us.