Catia Colagioia (b. 2001, she/they) is a multidisciplinary artist and researcher from South Philadelphia with a BA (’24) from the University of Pennsylvania in fine art. Catia's process is rooted in her traversal of Philadelphia, in her collection and resurrection of found objects, in the investigation of the objects' memories, and in the systems that deemed those objects obsolete, useless, trash.

There is a shifty logic applied to the objects she uses through her attempts to construct something physically unfamiliar yet already existent within her psyche. While her work possesses an uncanny, angelic quality, it also embodies the systems she references, and their by-products, their shoddy barriers, and their hypocriticalities. She applies care and repair as methodologies, tending closely to the desires of the objects she uses. There is a desire to carry the objects past their status as waste, and into a new territory, where they may allow their properties and histories to communicate in service of something larger.

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