Carla Giaccio Darias is an Italian-Cuban artist, born in Rome in 1998.
Her practice spans painting, drawing, and sculpture, deeply rooted in the collection and transformation of photographic and object-based archives. Through collecting and combining fragments of moments, she navigates the fluid space between the familiar and the unknown, using this process to connect with reality and engage with memory. Drawn to objects that feel both known and unfamiliar, she seeks to restore a sense of balance, often embracing the uncanny.
As a Cuban-Italian artist inhabiting a liminal space between cultures, her practice embraces uncertainty and failure as generative forces, allowing her to question the complexities of modern life from the periphery. She approaches the margin not as a site of exclusion, but as a dynamic space where new perspectives emerge. Her layered paintings, fragmented compositions, and partial visions challenge the documentary function of images, mirroring the instability and multiplicity of marginalized narratives while inviting new interpretations.
Education
2025 ongoing MFA Ecole Nationale Supérieure d’Art de Nice, Villa Arson.
2018-2021 BA Painting and Visual Arts, NABA, Milan.
Exhibitions
2025
(forthcoming) Solo Show, Des Bains, London, (UK)
'Ci piacerebbe essere altrove', Z2o Sara Zanin, Roma (IT)
'ReA! Art Fair', OPOS Milan (IT)
2024
'Oltre il Sangue Amaro', MO.CA, Brescia (IT)
'Los únicos son los niños', Tlaxcala 3, Mexico City, (MX)
'After Reminiscence', Cassina Project, Milan (IT)
'Quinto Elemento', in collaboration with Museo Orto Botanico di Roma, Porto Ercole (IT)
2023
'The Perf. End', Xunan, Milan (IT)
2022
'Colostro', Isola di Sant’Erasmo, Venice (IT)
'Upon a Time', Eduardo Secci Gallery, Florence (IT)
2021
'Ducato Prize III', Volumnia, Piacenza, (IT)
'Rea Art Fair', Fabrica del Vapore, Milan (IT)
'Degree Show II', Palazzo Monti, Brescia (IT)
2020
'Meeting Erase to Make a Mark', Adolfo Pini Foundation, Milan (IT)
Awards and residencies
2024
Residency 'The Lab Program', Mexico City (MX)
2021
Residency 'Palazzo Monti', Brescia (IT)
2021
Recipient of the Art Ducato Prize, Piacenza (IT)