Aurora
Caruso

Aurora Caruso is a visual artist born in Catania in 1999 and based in Rome, Italy. She is studying Communication Studies and Art & Design at John Cabot University in Rome and, as part of her academic journey, also attended The New School in New York. Alongside her artistic practice, she has gained experience across the film industry, journalism, and event production, while developing award-recognized personal creative projects.

Her practice draws on video art, film, virtual reality, photography, and writing to interrogate the relationship between the real and the virtual. Often working in teams, she directs her projects by layering archival materials, moving images, photographs, and immersive media, along with a meticulous use of sound, to question what lies beneath digital spaces and the surface of reality.

Growing up between Italy and Belgium, she places urban settings and human relationships at the center of her work, reflecting on how connections with these spaces and relationships shape a sense of belonging—a feeling of being grounded, of having a personal identity tied to a specific space and moment in time. Her work merges personal experience with a socio-political lens, revealing the clashes between personal and collective senses of belonging. Her multidisciplinary environments operate as shifting perceptual fields in which time, space, and perspective are manipulated through editing and projection.

Amidst these manipulations, recurring elements emerge in her practice: the defamiliarization of the viewer’s gaze as a strategy to disrupt habitual ways of seeing; the expansion of intimate connections into broader, universal frameworks; and the construction of environments in which memory, identity, and perception converge. Her projects weave personal experience with technology, inviting viewers to encounter the invisible layers embedded in reality.