I work at the intersection between contemporary art and contemporary anthropology. My double training (PhD in Anthropology and MFA in Art) stimulates me to create site-specific, inter-disciplinary, and cross-genre interventions that build on my long-term exposure to borderlands and border zones. In the last years, I have been designing a set of intermedia practices that reflect on the border as a mobile category of experience, of imagined and conceptual mediations, disciplinary negotiations, and geopolitical articulations. In creating a wide range of intermedia practices, mainly installation and video works, I have tried to create conceptual and evocative interventions that are less about documenting, translating or representing the Other, and more about moving alongside and contemplating the nature of desire in border zones. I have been dwelling around intensive ‘nodes’ of political and poetic concerns and assembling images and material within an inter-regional ecology of sites (Mexico, Italy, United States especially). Ultimately, these fieldwork-based interactions nourish my ongoing inquiry into an expanding constellation of images and concepts: trace, echo, fold, secret, flow.
Future Proof, Fiamma Montezemolo and Ian Alan Paul, Cantor Fitzgerald Gallery, Haverford, 2017
Tijuana Dreaming: Life and Art at the Global Border
Tijuana: Hybridity and Beyond: A Conversation with Nestor Garcia Canclini
Eco, Narciso y los procesos fronterizos
Senza Volto, etnicita' e genere nel movimento zapatista
La mia storia non la tua. La costruzione dell'identità chicana tra etero e autorappresentazion
Confini: viaggi nell'arte contemporanea, Giorgio Bacci, Postmedia, 2022
Coordinates: Theater, 2019 Bi-City Biennale Catalogue (p.386-391), Shenzhen, 2022
Il presente italiano dell'arte, by Antonello Tolve, in Machina, Deriveapprodi, 2020
Roma Nuda, 60 conversazioni sull'arte, a cura di Giuseppe Armogida, Miniere edizioni, 2020
‘Fiamma Montezemolo’ by Ida Panicelli, Artforum, March 2020
'La espiral en la obra de Fiamma Montezemolo', by Julia Perez, in Primera Pagina, 2020
'Senza legami ma connessi', by Silvano Manganaro, Il giornale delle mostre, January 2020
Radio UNAM, Soñar con Bisontes, Cinthya García Leyva, 2020
'Fiamma Montezemolo: Soñar con Bisontes', Entrevista por Marcos Palomeque, Farolito, January 2020
New tijuanologies', H. Yépez, in Media Cultures in America Latina, Routledge, London-NY, 2019
Fiamma Montezemolo: Entanglements, curated and written by Matteo Lucchetti, 2019
Post-Traumatic Stress Poetics in Socially Engaged Art. Healing as Praxis, by Carol Zouin Wexler, Alice and John Derby, eds. Contemporary Art and Disability Studies. New York: Routledge, 2019
Miercoles de SOMA, September 2019
'Post-Traumatic Stress Poetic in Socially Engaged Art, Healing as Practice' by Carol Zou, in Contemporary Art and Disability Studies, Edited by Alice Wexler, John Derby, Routledge, London-New York, 2019
‘I never explain', Fiamma Montezemolo, ATP Diary, December 2019
Teresa Macri. Il Panopticon secondo Fiamma Montezemolo, Il Manifesto, December 2019
Tania Aedo 'Soñar con Bisontes', Laboratorio Arte Alameda, Mexico City, 2019
La Jornada, Angel Vargas, Mexico, August 2019
Le ultime frontiere abbattute dall'arte, Il Manifesto, Nicolas Martino, 03-02
Heriberto Yépez, 'NuevasTijuanologías', Revista Iberoamericana, n.265, 2018
Art Basel Miami Beach What The Dealers Said – 2017 Round-Up
The Best Art We Saw in June: John Toki, Beth Shock, Fiamma Montezemolo, Phoenix New Times, June 2017
The Secret, brochure for Solo show at Kadist, by Marina Pugliese and Heidi Rabben 2016
Daily Serving, by Leila Easa, 2016
Vogue Art, by Riccardo Conti, The Secret , September, 2016
Tijuana Transa: Transa as Metaphor and Theory on the US–Mexico Border, by Jennifer Reimer in Journal of Transnational American Studies, 2016
The Incurable-Image: Curating Post-Mexican Film and Media Arts, by T. Elhaik, Edinburgh Press, 2016
"Zero Squared #41: Echo" by Douglas Lain, Zero Books Blog, October 21, 2015
"Fiamma Montezemolo, Traces," Mike Watson, Art Review, October 2015 [pdf]
"All that remains," by Emi Fontana [English] {Italiano], 2015
"Il bambino e l’acqua sporca," Sabrina Ragucci, Alfabeta June 26, 2015
"Le costellazioni della Montezemolo," La Repubblica, 2015
"Fiamma Montezemolo, Fra antropologia e arti visive," Lorenzo Taiuti Art Tribune July 2015
Il Manifesto, Lesistenza Del Futuro Sul Bordo Tra Messico E USA, 2015
Anthropology and Art Practice, edited by A. Schneider and C. Wright, 2013
Border Alchemies, Queen's Nails Project, San Francisco: (SOLO Exhibition), 2012