Dr. Vittoria Di Stefano
Details
College: School of Art
Department: School of Art
Campus: City Campus Australia
vittoria.distefano@rmit.edu.au
ORCID: 0000-0002-3230-192X
Open to
- Masters Research or PhD student supervision
About
Vittoria Di Stefano’s sculpture practice foregrounds material investigation as a methodology for exploring themes of precarity, the uncanny, transformation and desire, with a particular emphasis on domestic space and intimate materiality. Through a diverse material palette, and often drawing on historical and cultural touchstones as points of departure, the artist explores liminality as a critical strategy to challenge traditional power structures and notions of value. Her work examines how materials and domestic objects can hold emotional, historical and cultural residues, transforming sculpture into a space where personal histories and broader social structures are continually unsettled and reimagined.
Research fields
- 3606 Visual arts
Supervisor projects
- 제(Je): Jindgo Story, Korean Shamanism and the Art of Displacement
- 1 Jan 2025
Teaching interests
Vittoria Di Stefano teaches across contemporary art practice, sculpture, and art history and theory, with a particular focus on materiality, contemporary sculptural practice, modern and contemporary art, and the relationship between critical thinking and creative practice. Her teaching encourages students to develop materially and conceptually rigorous approaches to artmaking while situating their work within broader historical, theoretical and cultural contexts. She is particularly interested in supporting experimental, practice-led and interdisciplinary approaches to research, and in fostering students’ capacity to critically articulate the ideas, methods and contexts informing their work. She teaches across undergraduate and postgraduate programs and supervises MFA and PhD research.
Research interests
Research interests: Contemporary sculpture and installation; materiality and material agency; practice-led research; liminality and the uncanny; feminist and post-minimalist sculptural practices; domesticity and the politics of intimate space; precarity, transformation and desire; affect and embodied experience; object histories and material memory; value, labour and power; expanded approaches to sculptural practice.
