Classically trained as a pianist and a graduate of the Arts Décoratifs de Paris, Joseph Schiano di Lombo's work today displays a great formal diversity, seeking through it an opening to ontological, poetic and sensitive questions. His training as an instrumentalist gives him a propensity to appropriate what is already in the world, in the manner of a performer. But rather than faithfully rendering the text, he prefers its alteration: transposed into sets of plastic, musical and literary pieces, his references become muses, scores, instruments that he plays. As such, his posture is that of a re-interpreter who plays all kinds of games. Behind these alchemical processes, he reveals by re-presenting them to the world, like a spiritual archaeologist, new possibilities of being.