Simona Squadrito
is a teacher, critic, and independent curator. She teaches at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Siracusa, MADE program, and at NABA, Milan. She is co-founder of REPLICA, an Italian archive of artist books, and of KABUL magazine, a cultural association, independent publishing house, and magazine of contemporary art and culture. She is the author of essays for Postmediabooks, Skira, AgenziaX, and Nomos Edizioni, and writes for various specialized magazines. From 2015 to 2020, she was director of Villa Vertua Masolo, the civic museum of Nova Milanese, and from 2015 to 2021 she coordinated and co-curated the international and editorial projects of the Fondazione Rossi. She currently collaborates with bionic designer Carmelo Di Bartolo on an international research project on creativity.