F. De Isabella (Milan,1984) is a multidisciplinary artist. After graduating in filmmaking and photography at Civica Scuola di Cinema of Milan, in 2009 Fra co-founds Strasse with Sara Leghissa, a performing art group that worked in public space. In the same year he presents at 23° Festival MIX di Milano and Some Prefer Cake (Bologna) his first short film "Coming Out". From 2007, they starts D-jaying with the pseudonymous ubi broki, organizing elctro-romantic-queer parties. They have collaborated in italy with, among others: Far festival des art vivant (CH), Vooruit Kunstencentrum (BE), Festival de Marseille (FR), Santarcangelo Festival (ITA), Short Festival (ITA), Triennale di Milano (ITA), Centrale Fies (ITA) In the last years Fra works as sound designer for the performances of Giorgia Ohanesian Nardin, Titta Raccagni and Chiara Bersani as well as D-Jaying with Cristina Crystal Rizzo e Daniele Ninarello presenting it in: Kampnagel (DE), Rencontres chorégraphiques (FR), Teatro Mayor Julio Mario Santo Domingo (CO), Black Box Teater (NO), HAU Hebbel am Ufer (DE), IETM (Madrid), Alkantara Festival - Teatro Nacional D. Maria II (PT). With other artists, for some years now, Fra has been asking from the desire and necessity of looking into the dynamics, approaches, questions, and issues related to “art making” from a queer and transfeminist perspective. Between 2019 and 2021 Fra makes a 40 minutes movie, entirely shot in Armenia, for the artist Giorgia Ohanesian Nardin. In 2021 he presented “DICIOTTANNI | simultaneously an arch of 18 years and being 18 years old, coming of age” at Centrale Fies, the first part of his first work as a single author. Also in 2022 he participated and won with one of his posters the Cavalcavia call, a public art project promoted by BASE Milano, Milano Mediterranea, cultureandprojects. In 2023 he debuts with his latest project MAI+ inside FUORI! produced by ERT in Bologna.
Press
DICIOTTANNI
Thank you for coming. Una cura attenta a Centrale Fies - Valeria Marchi (15/06/21)
L’estate dei festival di danza. Tutti i nostri reportage - Stefano Tomassini (5/8/21)
MAI+
LASCIARE SPAZIO ALLA FIORITURA. NOTE SU FUORI! FESTIVAL - Michele Pascarella (12/6/23)
L’arte è negli occhi di chi guarda. FUORI! - Sergio Lo Gatto (21/6/23)
A CITY FOR ALL “What happens when young people take the power?” - Paola Granato (4/7/23)