I am a neurodivergent visual artist, originally from Italy.
I approach materials and processes as ways of investigating relations with living worlds and their embedded knowledge. I work locally, in residencies where I research the direct environment, or in relation to gardens I participate in tending. I make field notes, draw, weave on site, forage and dye, and later refine and curate the results into a variety of shapes, including painting and sculptural forms, textile works, ceramics, installations, workshops, public events, and writing.
My methodology includes self-teaching, learning from intimacy and affection, and from other-than-human beings. In my work I address matters of care and ecology, with a focus on aspects of interconnectedness and diversity, to think of and embody ways of living and inhabiting that are kinder to humans and more-than-humans.
Proximity to plants, the processing of fibers and textiles, and the making of plant-based colors are a core part of my practice. I think of colours as relational mediums, a channel for connecting with the living world I inhabit and the knowledge it holds. I aim to acknowledge how materials are rooted in places, land, soil, bodies of humans, more-than-humans, and earthly elements, and share an understanding of the world as a living entity, a perspective that goes against the objectification of nature and is a foundation for thinking of a future beyond our current extractivist economy.
My research includes academic and non-institutional l learning methodologies. I seek knowledge through listening to personal recounts, observing mutations, spending time with and taking care of, developing a tactile, visual, auditory and olfactory relation to places. Proximity leads to affection and intimacy, to the ability to recognize and name specificities, and allows the encounter of new ways of living, thinking and being, different from what I've known so far, which I aim to manifest in my work.
Scrap Poems
Helle Lindskog and Miriam Del Seppia will engage with weaving as a way to create a tactile record of the everyday during their residency at Studio17. Diary writing allows for smaller and unfinished thoughts to be framed by the continuation of the writing routine. Can weaving be dealt with similarly? Towards the end of the stay, they will present their woven interventions in a duo show.
Words contain seeds
A collaboration between artists Miriam Del Seppia, Angela Grigolato and Valeria Moro, running since 2020 and mood from a collective translation of the essay by Ursula K. Le Guin “The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction”. Their methodology is a way of spending time together while also digesting and unfolding the multiple meanings contained in words, exploring different and shared images. In January 2024 the project included a residency and public presentation at Paviljoen aan het Water, Rotterdam.
Abitare l'interferenza - "Dispense" vol.4
Residency, exhibition and public program part of “Dispense”, in collaboration with artist Hetty Ann Laycock, curated by Giulia Mariachiara Galiano, Martino De Vincenti and Alessandra Luisa Cozzi, at Terzospazio, Venice. We shared our methodology of working in connection with the landscape and activating a reflection on humans-other than human interactions. The program included two public events in dialogue with a marine biologist and philosophers, and a collective installation.
Artist in Residence Program Søndre Green
One-month residency. My research has intertwined botanical colors from local plants, lichens and mushrooms, and processing a fleece from old Norwegian Spælsau sheep. I included the resulting yarns in a tapestry, woven in conversation with the living landscape.
Still within reach
A group exhibition and public events by Bronwen Jones, Miriam Del Seppia, and Masaki Komoto based around textile handicraft. In the lead up to this exhibition they have been discussing the place of craft within an art practice, playing with how textile handcraft is perceived and reframing it into new constellations. The exhibition has been supported by the Amsterdam Fund for the Arts. Graphic design by fanfare (César Rogers).