Bogliasco Fellowship Recipients
Fall 2024

Cory Henry

Founder and Director of Atelier Cory Henry, Visiting Critic/Professor at Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design, Washington University in St. Louis – United States

Cory Henry founded the eponymous interdisciplinary design studio, Atelier Cory Henry, following 14 years working with renowned architects, including Michael Graves. Cory has maintained a commitment to addressing contemporary urban conditions through a combination of poetic design solutions and socially conscious ideals. He has developed a reputation as a contextually sensitive designer, with a strong dedication to generating spaces through collaborations, research, listening, and understanding of cultural narratives, contextual conditions, and values.

Cory Henry’s project undertaking in Bogliasco Foundation is the design of an exhibition/installation highlighting the relational dynamics and role of public space as an arena to foster, or deny, democratic practices. The installation is a continuation of his research and teaching in examining the social and economic realities of spatial inequities – primarily within public space – and the different ways in which disadvantaged communities articulate their own identities and transform space to place.

Ximena Garnica & Shige Moriya

Multidisciplinary artists – Colombia/Japan/United States

Colombian-born Ximena Garnica and Japan-native Shige Moriya are a multidisciplinary artist duo based in New York, creating works ranging from sculptural, video, light, and mixed-media installation art to contemporary dance and theater performances, publications, and research projects. Their works ponder questions of being, perception, interdependency, and coexistence. Garnica and Moriya have received awards from the USA, including Creative Capital, National Dance Project, and National Endowment for the Arts. They are the co-artistic directors of LEIMAY and the LEIMAY Ensemble.

Ximena and Shige will be working on their multi-year and multi-part project, Extinction Rituals. They will organize and integrate materials from their envisioned dance opera, triptych video, photographic series, and environmental action campaign. They will also work on a related short collection of writings focusing on the subjects that guide their multidisciplinary artistic practice. This collection will be integrated into the LEIMAY archive, documenting 25+ years of history as a creative force in the NY performance landscape.

Salome Chasnoff

Filmmaker and installation artist – United States

Salome Chasnoff is a filmmaker and installation artist who is inspired by the enlightening, humanizing, and healing capacities of storytelling. She has collaborated on films with people with disabilities, queer and trans youth, older sex workers, rural health workers, and women in prison. Her awards include Purpose Prize Fellowship, Ida B. Wells Bravery in Journalism, 21 Leaders for the 21st Century, and Illinois Arts Council Fellowship. She is a Senior Lecturer at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

Beyondmedia was a pioneering Chicago organization at the forefront of democratizing mediamaking in the 1990s-2000s, guiding marginalized people to make videos in their own voices and inject them into public discourse to influence issues affecting their lives. Weaving archival footage with new interviews, Chasnoff’s documentary will focus on the transformative power of narrative agency, asking in a time of unprecedented connectivity and unprecedented social disintegration if storytelling can still heal.

Catherine Conybeare

– (Classics) – Leslie Clark Professor in the Humanities, Bryn Mawr College – United Kingdom/United States

Catherine Conybeare teaches classics at Bryn Mawr College. Her most recent book, Augustine the African, places North Africa at the centre of Augustine of Hippo’s life and thought; it will be published by Liveright in 2025. She has written widely on the Latin literature and culture of late antiquity and is the editor of a series from Cambridge University Press, “Cultures of Latin”, which explores Latin as a continuous tradition from antiquity to the present.

The new project, Latin, Music, and Meaning, starts from two ideas: that a swathe of Western music is grounded in Latin, thanks to its emergence from hymnody and plainchant; and that it is through music that our contemporaries are most likely to encounter Latin. Four sections on hymns, plainchant, polyphony, and silence will be interspersed with case studies of pregnant Latin phrases in different musical settings to explore how the combination of words and music may generate meaning.

Kevin Benham

Jon Emerson/Wayne Womack Assistant Professor of Landscape Architecture – United States

Kevin Benham was the Prince Charitable Trusts/Kate Lancaster Brewster Rome Prize recipient 2020-2021 and the recipient of a MacDowell Fellowship in 2024. He received his MLA from the Graduate School of Design at Harvard University and his M.Arch. at the Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning, The University of Michigan.

Kevin Benham’s research and work focus on landscape phenomena and the temporal qualities inherent in the discipline. To that end, he produces temporal and ephemeral land art installations that elucidate phenomena requiring careful observation through space and time.

Rachel Kadish

Fiction writer and essayist – United States

Rachel Kadish’ work has been read on NPR and has appeared in The New York Times, Paris Review, and Pushcart Prize Anthology. Her most recent novel, The Weight of Ink, received a National Jewish Book Award and was a USA Today bestseller. She has been the Koret writer-in-residence at Stanford University and a fellow of the NEA, the Massachusetts Cultural Council, and Harvard/Radcliffe’s Bunting Institute. She is a spokesperson for Artists for Understanding.

Set in a reeling Poland following the 2010 Smolensk air disaster, The Belnord explores the long echo of war crimes for descendants of bystanders as well as victims. The novel traces the colliding fates of three characters: a gay Polish Catholic teen in a town with an uneasy past; an American scientist caught in Poland’s climate change upheaval; and a Holocaust refugee born in a DP camp. The Belnord explores how we’re haunted by the past, and what it takes on a human level for us to move forward.

Joanna Dudley

Director, performer, singer – Australia/Germany

Project in collaboration with Philip Miller

Joanna Dudley is an internationally acclaimed Australian director, performer, and singer who has collaborated extensively with William Kentridge and Philip Miller, notably on Refuse the Hour and Paper Music. Dudley created solo roles for major opera productions, pioneered multimedia installations like WE WILL SLAM YOU WITH OUR WINGS, and featured at prestigious venues worldwide. Additional collaborations include Schaubuehne Berlin and artists like Seiji Ozawa and Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui.

Human/Avian Murmurations is a sonic installation by composer Philip Miller and performer Joanna Dudley that explores humanity's complex relationship with birds, addressing their cultural significance and the urgent threat of extinction. Featuring immersive visuals by William Kentridge, it merges natural history, opera, and film. Their collaborative efforts aim to raise awareness and conservation efforts through various mediums.

Meisam Mozafari

Writer and Theater Director – Iran

Meisam Mozafari is an Iranian film director and screenwriter. He graduated from Tarbiat Modarres University with a master's level of Theater Directing. He has also worked as an editor on short films and documentaries. His films were shown at several international film festivals. His later film, Ardor, was shown at the Lift-off global festival in 2024. So far, Mozafari has directed and written three plays, five short films, one documentary and written more than ten screenplays and plays.

While at Bogliasco, Meisam Mozafari plans to outline a theater piece called “Mom Art”, whose story is told based on famous paintings in the Cubist style. Mozafari hopes to produce a complete draft of the text, stage design, and its execution method.

Liza Ambrossio

Multidisciplinary Artist – Mexico/France

Liza Ambrossio is a Mexican multidisciplinary artist, filmmaker and women’s rights activist who lives and works in France, Spain, Mexico, and the USA. She is the author of The rage of devotion, Blood orange, and Toda devoción causa ira. She has received the annual photography residence from the Musée du Quai Branly in Paris, France, and was a member of the Casa de Velazquez. Ambrossio has received favorable reviews from top international curators and art critics such as Cuauhtémoc Medina.

I am not a map, I am a labyrinth is an attempt at symbolic justice after confronting the incest experienced in the artist's childhood, exploring the history of mental imbalance in the field of love, both personal and global, and at the same time an ecofeminist nod in parallel to the climate crisis, where the physical, psychological, moral, and institutional vulnerability is explored in the face of the powers that surround us from childhood to death and how they directly affect women.