First residency stage | Max Mara Art Prize for Women
Dian Suci, winner of the tenth edition of the Max Mara Art Prize for Women, began her six-month itinerant residency in Italy, organized for her by Collezione Maramotti.
The project proposal with which Suci won the prize — Crafting Spirit: Cultural Dialogues in Heritage and Practice — springs from her desire to explore the fallout of the encounter between religious artisan traditions and the capitalist system, through a comparative study of Italy and Indonesia.
The first stage of Suci’s residency began in May in Assisi, where she lived, for several weeks, in close contact with the community of the Monastery of San Masseo to learn about the monks’ way of life and to meet artisans who produce Catholic handcrafts.
The Umbrian leg continued under the guidance of Francesco Lampone, an expert in local history, and the artist Peter Bartlett, examining the contradictions that, starting from this city, divide religion and capitalism.