Micol Grazioli

Micol Grazioli (1989, Trento) is an Italian visual artist based in Marseille, working between France and Italy. Her practice explores the interdependent relationship between humans and their environment through participatory, site-specific, and relational approaches. She graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Bologna (2012) and the École Supérieure d’Art et de Design Marseille-Mediterranée (2015). She has exhibited her work in Collection Lambert (Avignon), Xinying Cultural Center in Tainan (Taiwan), and Galleria Civica (Trento), as well as at the Festival des Arts Éphémères (Marseille). Since 2018, she has collaborated with FRAC Sud on participatory projects with schools and communities.

Project: The Rain Paths

Challenge 14: Water harvesting in the Alps in the face of climate change

Project summary: The Rain Paths is a participatory research project that explores the hidden and visible flows of water in landscapes. Originating in the French Prealps, where the project began with schools and local communities, it now seeks to evolve in Trentino. The research combines mapping, creating plaster casts of water-sculpted forms, and collecting testimonies. Through community workshops, participants are invited to imagine and design a space that embodies the presence of water and reflects on our interdependent relationship with it. The envisioned outcome, inspired by karst water sculptures, is a concave, porous, and aesthetic space able to receive and contain both water and people. This prototype becomes a monument to water as a common good, uniting art, science, and community in a process that raises ecological awareness while offering a functional and symbolic place of encounter.

Listen to the artist talking about “The Rain Paths”