STATEMENT
Domnick Sorace is an Italian/Maltese multimedia artist based in Dublin since 2017, following a B.A. (Hons) in Fine Arts from MCAST Institute of Creative Arts, Malta.
At the heart of Sorace’s practice is a fascination with the grey areas of subjective experience: rationality and sensuality, permanence and transience, analysis and intuition. These tensions unfold across recurring themes, including the authenticity of emotions, the imprints of belief, the fragmentation of memory, the politics of gender and sexuality, the shaping influence of place, and the embodied self. A unifying undertone in his work is engagement with the visual and material legacy of Catholic ritual and iconography, which permeates it like an undercurrent. Rather than a commentary on faith, Sorace draws on its aesthetics, gestures of devotion, relics, and ritual charge. His process involves breaking multifaceted ideas into fragments, allowing them to be examined and reshaped through materiality and experimentation before being reassembled into a cohesive whole.
Sorace’s practice is primarily installation-led and material-driven, spanning sculpture, photography, and immersive media. He adopts an intuitive approach to materials, guided by their inherent, symbolic, and affective qualities, or by the ways they provoke sensory responses. This often leads to the use of unconventional media such as blood, biochemicals, and gemstones, and more recently to writing, scent, and audio, which contribute to layered, surreal environments.
His work invites viewers to discover their own points of connection. While he often begins with forms that feel broadly familiar, it remains grounded in the honesty of materials and/or the experiences that inform them. Though some aspects may resonate more strongly with viewers with similar backgrounds, Sorace uses ambiguity to create space for individual interpretation.