Gianlorenzo Chiaraluce is currently a PhD student in Art History at the University of Rome La Sapienza. Over the years he has also collaborated with various public and private institutions (MACRO Museum, Baruchello Foundation, Monitor Gallery, Galleria Erica Ravenna). His research interests include: the history of art from the post-World War II to the present; artistic connections between Italy and United States; contemporary art and the relationship with animal studies. With respect to the latter topic, he has several conferences and publications in Italy and abroad to his credit, including: L’Europa attraverso gli “occhi del Coyote”: un’analisi dell’opera di Jimmie Durham, in "Novecento Transnazionale, vol. 6, 2022, pp. 89 - 106 and S Pastore di greggi d'insetti: Gianfranco Baruchello e l’allevamento di anobidi, in "Elephant & Castle", no. 27, 2022, pp. 80 - 102. Regarding transatlantic relations between Italy and the U.S.A., he has recently published: Eugenio Battisti e gli Stati d'America: uno storico dell'arte transnazionale, in M. Averna, G. Postiglione, R. Rizzi (eds.), The Italian Presence in Post-war America, 1949-1972: Architecture, Design, Fashion, Mimesis, Milan 2023, pp. 212 - 223.

As part of this research, Gianlorenzo Chiaraluce aims to address the issue of "foreign gaze" in an inter-species sense. In the history of contemporary art, the animal has in fact frequently been taken into question as a term of comparison suitable for rethinking the relationship with otherness, frequently generating reflections that fall on the determinations of the national identity of a people or the criticism of its specificities. Within the framework of the posthuman, the questioning of anthropocentrism has in fact induced a rethinking of canons and narrative strategies, which complicate the notion of what is considered culturally other and broaden the problems of subjective redefinition.