Biography
Alys (Alice Castiglione) was born in Palermo
(Italy) on 11 May 1986 – She has been formed in
the art environment since her early age.
She studied one year at the local music
conservatory, then she realized that his path was
among visual arts.
She attended the art school and the art institute
studying painting, sculpture, installation,
then she started exploring hybridization between
the different media.
She attended the Revolutionary Proletarian
Feminist Movement for some years and this
experience led her to a social consciousness,
subsequently poured in her artistic research.
As a matter of fact, her artistic research will be mainly focused on the women’s identity - not surprisingly her landmark is Frida Kahlo.
She travelled around Italy until she stopped in Marche,where she enrolled in the Multimedia Direction section at the Academy of Fine Arts in Macerata (Italy), where her partnership / relationship with Daniele Antonini –a musician and a creative - over the years will affect her artistic choices - an incentive for new routes (for example sound design experiments).
Both of them also recognize the value of the journey as a creative discovery, to such an extent as to be confirmed as a value in the artist's poetics.
She takes a deeper interest in the multi-sensory seeking in the combination of various media an alternative aesthetic proposal, which comes to life thanks to the performative multisensory "Path of Loss and Rebirth" exhibited at the Omero Tactile Museum in Ancona and proposed as totally self produced at the national exhibition in Conversano " Face's Art ", thanks to the positive response of the public and critics, a work written by Chiara Ludolini, the curator of the exhibition "Ancona a mano libera”.
Afterwards she attends an Erasmus at the University of Salford-Manchester and two years later she obtains a research placement at the University Complutense Felipe II of Madrid, Spain.
After academic graduation she founded the Nikae Factory (New International Knowdledge of Artistic Experience Factory) and after the performance “Activision” in collaboration with Steve Hunt, Daniele Antonini and Chiara Ludolini, she leaves her hometown Palermo and moves to Manchester, where she currently lives and works
