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Davide Sgambaro (b. 1989, Padua) is based in Turin. He studied Visual and Performing Arts at the IUAV University of Venice.
Sgambaro’s practice investigates collective atmospheres of contingency, addressing existential concerns tied to the individual’s condition within contemporary precarity. Working across a range of media including installation, photography, performance, and sculpture he constructs caustic and layered narratives that respond to present-day disparities. His works draw on generational imagery and adopt an irreverent tone to activate mechanisms of survival and evoke a sense of class revenge.
At the core of his research are themes of anxiety, instability, and the sociocultural pressures surrounding ambition and success. Through narrative paradoxes and ephemeral bodily traces, his works inhabit spaces shaped by sacrifice, social mobility and meritocracy. The body, often central to his approach, becomes a site for provocative gestures that resist and transform space and materials.
Sgambaro frequently employs participatory practices such as games, public programs, and audience interactions and creates site-specific installations inspired by twilight scenarios suspended between desire and disillusionment.

HE’s one of the founders and supporters of
AwI – Art Workers ITalia.

davide.sgambaro@gmail.com
studio.sgambaro@gmail.com