Open Call for Artist, Creative, Musician and Performer
Debora Maurelli
New York City, NY 10009
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Debora Maurelli, an emerging curator and artist based in Italy with an active practice in NYC, seeks contributions for a curatorial project called Hide-and-Seek, which will have an iteration as one-day event in August or September at Le Petit Versailles, community garden managed by Allied Production.
THE CONCEPT:
Hide-and-Seek is an ongoing curatorial project conceived as an itinerant and modular group exhibition, unfolding through different iterations in various spaces along Italy and New York.
As a dynamic experience, the exhibition transforms depending on the hosting location, responding to the inherent vitality of each space with its already rich existence. Each “situated iteration” sees the artworks adapt to engage directly with the specific location and community invited to participate in the game. In every iteration, new guest artists, performers, or activities are added to the core group of participants to reflect the unique character of the city and ecosystem.
The posthuman framework, which underpins the curator’s long-term research, serves as a means to activate new relationships rather than being the central theme of the exhibition. Drawing on theorists such as Rosi Braidotti, Donna Haraway, and Stefano Mancuso, Hide-and-Seek is based on a scalar system of relationality and active participation by all agents—human and non-human—in creative processes, transcending traditional hierarchical separations. Posthumanism thus becomes a pragmatic inquiry into who we are becoming and how we connect with Earth’s “others” on a planetary scale.
In the show, the game of hide-and-seek between artist, artwork, and visitor becomes a metaphor for a process that values participatory and egalitarian dialogue among all agents involved in creation. The project emerges as a living relational ecosystem that is both local and universal, evolving continuously through interconnection and co-creation.
The core group of the exhibition in formed by: Anna Costantino (IT), Bruna D'Alessandro (IT-US), Elias Diplas (US), Shahira Hammad (US), Daniel Scordio (IT)
THE CURATOR
Debora Maurelli (Italy, 2000) is a curator, artist and art organizer. She holds a master’s degree in Visual Arts from IUAV University of Venice and a bachelor’s in Architectural Design from the Politecnico di Milano. Her education is further enriched by a master’s in Architecture and Museography for Archaeology, deepening her exploration of spatial design, heritage conservation, and exhibition curation. She has taken on a transversal role in artistic and cultural management, exhibition production, and installation, collaborating with various organizations in the art and non-profit sectors.
Her practice moves across the boundaries of visual arts, curatorship, multimedia installations, and writing, centering on posthuman perspectives. She investigates non-anthropocentric modes of interaction, fostering new relational dynamics between humans, non-humans, spaces, and objects. Through her research, she tries to challenge traditional perception, exploring multispecies entanglements and expanded ways of being.
As an artist, she has exhibited in Unfolding Roots (L’Appartement 49c, New York City, 2024), Artefici del Nostro Tempo (Padiglione 29, Venice, 2024), and Components of Existence (10 & zero uno, Venice, 2024). Her curatorial projects include Have a Good One! (WhiteBox, New York, 2025), Components of Existence (10 & zero uno, Venice, 2024) and she has been part of the curatorial collective Co_Atto in Milan. Her work is part of the collection of the Galleria Internazionale d’Arte Moderna Ca’ Pesaro in Venice.