Artists

Cally Spooner

Press release

Cally Spooner is a British-Italian artist and a writer, whose choreographies, rooted in her training in philosophy, unfold across media—through sound, on film, in text, as objects, and illustrated in drawings. Her series of five essays on “performance”, A Hypothesis of Resistance, was published as a monographic text book by Mousse, Milano in 2024. In each essay Spooner holds and examines temporalities which defy and eclipse the standardizations that drive individual and societal bodies to perform toward an entirely metric-oriented future. Beginning with “Asynchronicity” then extending to “Rehearsal,” “The Present Tense,” “Undetectability,” and “Duration”, A Hypothesis of Resistance was edited in conversation with Will Holder.

Solo and group exhibitions by Spooner count institutions including Palais de Tokyo (Paris), New Museum (New York), Graham Foundation (Chicago), Whitechapel Gallery (London), Castello di Rivoli (Turin), and Stedelijk Museum (Amsterdam). Her works are found in public collections including the British Council Collection (UK) Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea (IT), Centre Pompidou (FR), CAPC Bordeaux (FR), Fondation Lafayette (FR), FRAC Franche Comté (FR), FRAC Ile de France (FR), Kadist Foundation (FR), and Stedelijk Museum (NL).