Researchers Beneath the City, 2024
Oil on Canvas
£6,000
About the Artist
Damien Cifelli is an artist from Edinburgh, Scotland. His work explores an alternative world of his own creation called ‘Tarogramma’ and everything he creates exists within this fictional environment. Referencing the scale and compositions of history paintings and historical sculpture, he has built a detailed culture with its own aesthetic, way of living, and understanding of the world; one that is at once alien, and eerily similar to our own. He tells the story of the place through fictional anthropology and storytelling; the paintings and artefacts are a visual representation of this alternative society - documentary images of a new world. He has exhibited internationally at galleries including Whitechapel Gallery, Saatchi Gallery, and OOF galleries with solo shows at Spinello Projects, Moosey Gallery, Pulpo, Liminal Gallery, and Edinburgh Art Festival. He was shortlisted for the East London Art Prize, UK New Artists Award, Cass Art Prize and Delphian Open Call and won the Thyssen Versiona award
