Born in Milan, Italy, Marco Corvo is an artist who’s work ranges across photography, filmmaking, installation, and social practice. He lives and works in a National Forest near Boulder, Colorado.

His studio is located in a valley within the indigenous Ute territory which also has a colonial mining past that dates back to the 1860s. 

In his practice Marco is exploring our contemporary experience of colonized time and the possibilities of life in capitalist ruins.

Responding to the effects of the digitalization and the logics of extraction, Marco’s work explores the possibility of a vital breath giving life to objects, the land, and all living beings.

 

“I’m interested in the colonizing and destabilizing effect that the digital deluge has on our bodies, our sensory perception and our social life — humans are becoming artificial. ​​On the other hand, I’m also interested in what animates objects, the land and all living species — I think it's the lifeblood of a much needed new planetary consciousness."

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Marco employs a slow 19th-century photographic collodion process on glass or metal aiming at bringing to life rituals and rhythms that reestablish a sense of duration, narration, and history.

 

In addition to making objects, Marco’s practice is expanding into relational aesthetics, staging social interactions through meals that he prepares in collaboration with sustainable farmers and chefs and shares with an audience on specific sites.

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​He has exhibited work in galleries and venues locally and internationally.

His short film 'impermanence' was recently screened at the University of Colorado Boulder, where he was invited to give a talk on theory that influences his art practice at the Center for Media, Religion, and Culture.