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SAGG Napoli

b. 1991, Naples, Italy; lives and works Naples, Italy.

SAGG Napoli is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice spans video, performance, sculpture, spoken word, and digital media. Working across personal narrative and collective cultural identity, her work examines questions of class, gender, regional belonging, and the construction of Southern Italian identity within broader European cultural frameworks. Central to her practice is an engagement with what she describes as a 'South Aesthetics,' reclaiming visual languages often associated with excess, spectacle, ornamentation, or social marginality and repositioning them as sites of agency, resistance, and emotional intensity. Her works frequently move between vulnerability and theatricality, combining autobiographical elements with performative gestures that explore discipline, endurance, catharsis, and embodied experience. Drawing on influences ranging from popular culture and street aesthetics to ritual, sport, and online self-fashioning, SAGG Napoli treats performance as both a social condition and a survival strategy. Digital culture also plays a significant role within her practice, with social media functioning not simply as documentation, but as an active space for experimentation, identity construction, and the circulation of contemporary image culture.

SAGG Napoli's recent solo exhibitions include Champ Lacombe, London (2026); Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art, Porto (2026); Early is on time, on time is late, and late is unacceptable, but yet ’m scord’ ’e te scurdà, zaza, Milan (2025); Cuore spezzato e testa alta, Import Export, Warsaw (2024); Pisces don't drown, Galerie Champ Lacombe, Biarritz (2022); and Si na buji pi cosc lisc e o'smalt ngopp all'ogn – You're a Lie with Smooth Thighs and Painted Nails, Jupiter Woods, London (2017). Selected group exhibitions include EDEN: Wet Work Over Lap, Kim? Contemporary Art Centre, Riga (2026); In the Moment, National Museum, Oslo (2025); Basel Social Club, Basel (2025); Con il cuore in una mano e l'arco nell'altra, Musée Rodin, Paris (2024); Mental Pictures, Import Export, Warsaw (2023); Baroque, Champ Lacombe, Biarritz (2023); Performance & The City, Art Verona, Verona (2021); and Too Much, Glasgow International, Glasgow (2020).

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