STATEMENT
I am drawn to the grey areas between rationalizing and sensualizing experiences, whether personal, collective, past, or present. Sentimentality reverberates through my work, while also embracing the honest and visceral.
At the heart of my practice lies an exploration of the authenticity of emotions, the imprints left by beliefs, inhabiting a body, and the tensions created by gender and sexuality. My process begins with disassembling these complex themes into smaller, digestible fragments. Through experimentation, merging, reshaping, and removing, I distill these fragments into their essential forms. As clarity emerges, these elements coalesce into narratives that manifest as photographic series and immersive installations.
Recently, I have been focusing on translating these ideas into immersive multimedia installations. My approach to materials is intuitive and guided by their symbolic or sensory qualities. Clay embodies fragility, transparency evokes the intangible, water signifies purity, and wax captures the permanence of imprints. This openness often leads me to unconventional materials, allowing their inherent properties to shape the work’s direction.
Photography remains a constant in my practice. It serves as both a distancing mechanism and a means of uniting multiple perspectives, creating series that explore the sensual dimensions of my concepts.
Ultimately, the objective of my work is always resonance, with enough ambiguity to allow a place for reliability.
Biography
Domnick Sorace was born in Reggio Calabria, Italy, and grew up between Italy and Malta. He moved to Ireland in 2017 after graduating with a B.A. (Honours) First Class Degree in Fine Arts from the MCAST Institute of Creative Arts, Malta. He is based in Dublin since 2018.
Sorace has exhibited both internationally and nationally such as LUSUS, curated by Simon Fennessy Corcoran at The Courthouse Gallery, Ennistymon, Co. Clare (2023) and The Assembly, curated by Charlie Cauchi at R Gallery, Sliema, Malta (2024).
Sorace has received several awards, including The Solstice Diversity Award 2024, presented by the Solstice Arts Centre and Creative Ireland and the Individual Artist Bursary Award 2023 from South Dublin City Council to produce new work. Most recently, he was honoured with the Judges' Choice Award 2024, part of the Borders Winter Open Call Exhibition (2024), leading to a solo exhibition at RUA Red South Dublin Arts Centre in 2025. He was also selection for Culture Moves Europe: Individual Mobility of Artists 2024, funded by the Goethe-Institut, for an upcoming Writing Residency at Arte Studio Ginestrelle, Assisi, Italy, in 2025.
