supporting and curating artistic practice
what is fluid
fluid ˈfluːɪd/ Floo-id
The word fluid originates from the Latin fluidus, meaning “flowing” or “moist,” itself derived from fluere, “to flow.”
It describes any substance capable of moving and assuming the shape of its container.
Although fluid art technically refers to an abstract painting technique—typically involving acrylic paints combined with a pouring medium to produce organic, abstract patterns—our understanding of the term expands beyond its physical definition toward a more metaphorical realm.
In fluid artistic practices, forms are understood as metamorphic identities, adaptable, and continually evolving.
They experiment and move beyond traditional binaries and disciplinary boundaries, transcending rigid distinctions between painting, architecture, and sculpture, as well as binary oppositions such as nature and culture, the organic and the artificial.
These forms are never fixed; instead, they remain in a perpetual state of becoming, occasionally captured at the brief moment of their solidification.
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what we do
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Fluid Art Forms is a hybrid platform based in Florence, Italy, dedicated to supporting both emerging and established artists working across a broad spectrum of media. Through the integration of writing and visual storytelling, it brings audiences closer to the heartbeat of contemporary art, amplifying artistic voices and illuminating their cultural impact.
Conceived as a nomadic, hybrid, and transcultural initiative, Fluid Art Forms brings together a diverse community of creative professionals—including artists, artisans, curators, writers, activists, and scholars. By nurturing cross-disciplinary collaboration and intercultural exchange, the project fosters experimentation, dialogue, and the sharing of knowledge. The result is a dynamic ecosystem where creativity, critical thought, and social engagement converge.
Mission & Values:
Fluid Art Forms is a hybrid platform devoted to curating, supporting, and amplifying artistic practices across diverse media and cultural contexts. Grounded in a commitment to accessibility and inclusivity, the platform foregrounds practices that move fluidly across time and space, embracing experimentation in both form and content. It challenges rigid structures within the visual arts ecosystem by fostering dialogue between audiences, historically charged environments, and a wide range of disciplines—including mixed media, sculpture, painting, poetry, performance, activism, critical theory, and cinematography. By cultivating meaningful connections among creators and viewers across physical and digital realms, Fluid Art Forms reactivates spaces, uncovers new layers of meaning, and opens pathways for critical reflection and social engagement.
We cultivate a nomadic and ever-evolving environment where the public can engage with visionary creatives and professionals, discovering the transformative potential of artistic expression. By transcending conventional boundaries of form, time, and space, we aim to foster inclusive settings that encourage exploration, dialogue, and imagination.
Goals:
Our goal is to champion the inclusion and visibility of artists both locally in Florence and on an international scale. We aim to foster meaningful connections and spaces across the global arts communities while providing the resources and support that artists and cultural professionals need to thrive. By cultivating partnerships with visual artists, galleries, exhibition spaces, cultural platforms, and non-profit organizations, we strive to create opportunities for collaboration, dialogue, and innovation that strengthen the reach and impact of contemporary art.
Based in Florence, Italy—with frequent activity in Berlin and Poznań, Poland—Fluid Art Forms is a hybrid platform that supports both emerging and established artists working across diverse media. Through critical writing and visual storytelling, the platform brings audiences closer to the evolving dynamics of contemporary art, amplifying artists’ voices and underscoring their cultural and social impact.
Fluid Art Forms was founded by Aleksandra Lisek (@allelisel), an art curator and writer. She holds a Master’s degree in Art Curatorship and Visual Culture from the Accademia di Belle Arti di Firenze, as well as a degree in Performativity Studies from the Jagiellonian University in Kraków. She further specialized through a postgraduate program in Art Law and Cultural Heritage Management at Sapienza University of Rome.
The platform is dedicated to the promotion and curation of artistic practices and creative initiatives, offering a space for the exploration of diverse artistic expressions and socially engaged projects.
Past project
Art exhibition“Fabulation”,
featuring works by Simone Cariota, Maria Gomez, and Miguel Justicia
Alternative narratives and metamorphic creatures were just some of the themes explored in the exhibition "Fabulation," which opened Friday, October 13th 2023 at the Ex Macelli in Prato, Italy and featured works by Simone Cariota, Maria Gomez, and Miguel Justicia (aka Potro Negro). The group exhibition aimed to immerse visitors in an uncertain and fluctuating space, exploring the potential of a possible alternative narrative through the construction of a space that engages the body in listening to sounds and observing unsystematic images.
Exhibition text:
The material birth of the story arises from living somewhere else. Our imagination needs veiled elements to re-signify the boundaries of the representable. In this sense, the creation of an acousmatic place that cannot be delineated through the gaze generates a new sensation to inhabit, making it possible to stay in an indeterminate space. The word “acousma” was born in Greek antiquity to describe the sounds we hear but are not exactly able to say where they come from. The acousmatic space can therefore be defined as a sound atmosphere that dictates the possibilities of new perceptive and physical knowledge. The intent of the exhibition is to immerse the visitor in this uncertain and fluctuating place, exploring the potential of a possible alternative narrative through the construction of a space that involves bodies in listening to sounds and observing images not systematized. The work of Maria Gomez and Miguel Justicia is constituted under the premise of learning to perceive from the radicality of the decomposition of meaning. Artists make a compromise with what the sensitive hides: seeing, hearing, touching and intuiting things in another way.They outline exercises that compose a broken perception by provoking a counter-sense, so that in non-existence the exceptional can happen.
Clairvoyance/foresight and epiphanies are caused by the emergence of new forms of the sensitive, of new buried relationships that our gaze discovers when it excavates landscapes.The volatile deformation of the forms developed by Simone Cariota seems to enter into dialogue with the flows of light and sound in space, which become integral elements of the process of modeling his forms. Cariota's chimerical figures, born from the combination of elements of human and animal nature, are created through thermo-forming on the basis of fragments of classical statues found in various places.
Distorted details of concave grooves and plastic protrusions are therefore part of a nomadic metamorphosis that resists a state of permanence. The meeting between these practices generates a new fabled space perceived as a mapped archive in which travellers, through a story emotionally intuited within, find connections between the visual and sound potential of the material found in the space. A place that leaves our vision in suspension to create a reality only imagined, open to the possibility of inhabiting a newly born land.
Support:
INVISITA workshop was organized by Cut | Temporary Urban Circuit and Contemporary Art Forms with the contribution of the Tuscany Region, Fondazione CR Firenze, Academy of Fine Arts of Florence and with the collaboration of the Municipality of Prato, Officina Giovani, TranSpace, Materiale Project Room, ABAFi Student Council and Fondazione Il Bisonte .
