Neeko Paluzzi

Neeko Paluzzi is a lens-based artist and educator working with images, text, and installation. Drawing on a background in linguistic pedagogy, he approaches art as an act of translation, developing intertextual projects that situate historical texts within contemporary frameworks. Influenced by Jorge Luis Borges, he understands translation as unstable and cumulative, where each iteration carries the conditions of its making. His projects often begin with an originating text — the Urtext — and its subsequent adaptations, treating these versions as coexisting rather than hierarchical. This approach resists linear authorship and colonial frameworks, aligning with queer theories of multiplicity and refusal of singular origin.

His practice moves between digital and analog processes, including collage, text-based composition, and darkroom techniques. These methods allow for layered acts of citation in which sources accumulate across time, sometimes spanning centuries. Authorship in his work is distributed: each reference becomes part of a network of interdependent ideas, foregrounding translation as a shared and ongoing process rather than a fixed outcome.