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Fabio Santacroce is an artist and curator based between Bari and Turin. His works set a seamless play between reality  theatralization, vulnerability and affirmation, aesthetic exuberance and social investigation. He combines low and high culture references, incorporates trivial objects, DIY crafts, celebration decorations, pop music and lo-fi videos, assembled into exacerbated installations. Santacroce’s practice concerns with the exploration and the deconstruction of the spectacle, the popular culture and the hierarchy of power structures. He employs a post-pop/conceptual language, constructive and deconstructive, wry and gentle, negotiating personal and collective memories. Using anti monumentality and dilettantism, as aesthetic and critical tools, his installations appear like implosive constructions always threatened by a sense of divertissement and idiosyncrasy. Since 2014, Santacroce has been running 63rd-77th STEPS, a project space located between the 63rd and the 77th step of a multi-floor staircase, inside the building where he lives.