Born in 1985 in Milan (Italy). She lives and works in New York (USA).
Artist and researcher, Adelita Husni Bey questions political and economic powers by often staging in her work micro-utopias and self-managed communities.
“Adelita Husni-Bey is an artist and educator interested in anarco-collectivism, theatre, law and urban studies. It organizes workshops, produces publications, radio programs, archives and exhibition works focused on the use of non-competitive pedagogical models in the context of contemporary art. Working with activists, architects, lawyers, schoolchildren, speech poets, actors, planners, physiotherapists, athletes, teachers and students from different backgrounds, the work focuses on unpacking the complexity of the community. Fix what can never be fixed: what we owe each other.” from the artist’s website.
Adelita Husni Bey is represented by the galleria Laveronica arte contemporanea, Modica, Italy.
https://www.gallerialaveronica.it/artists/adelita-husni-bey