Sam Zanardo

My name is Sam Zanardo, and I am a visual and performance artist from Italy. With a background in dance and martial arts, concepts of endurance, constriction, and repetition are central to my practice. Exploring physicality aimed at exhaustion allows me to investigate power dynamics within established structures and address subjectivity as a continuous process of de-composition and re-configuration. Currently, I explore storytelling through choreographic practices that involve performance, filmmaking, and writing. I research folklore, rituality, and magic in Southern Italy, weaving religious tales with personal narratives and media archives. These fragments are interlaced with diverse plots, creating new ornaments.