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Rossella Biscotti & Valérie Cabanes

The dialectics between visual arts and ecocide

The series Creators facing Climate Emergency provides a platform for conversations between artists, thinkers and scientists to create new narratives, raise awareness and incite action in the face of climate change, using artists as mediators. These conversations also propose new ways of producing and displaying the arts, and invite on this occasion the artist Rossella Biscotti and the International lawyer Valérie Cabanes to explore the dialectics between visual arts and ecocide.

Speakers

Rossella Biscotti (1978, Italy) uses montage as a gesture to reveal individual narratives and their relationship to society. In her cross-media practice, which cuts across filmmaking, performance and sculpture, she explores and reconstructs the social and political moments of recent times through the subjectivity and experiences of individuals, often set against the backdrop of the institutional system. Traces of people's lives, objects and ideas are judiciously woven together into new visual narratives.
Her most recent and longest-running project, The Journey, began in 2016 and links scientific research, oceanography and environmental data from a marble bock in Italy's Carrara quarry in the Mediterranean Sea (between Italy, Tunisia, Libya and Malta).

A graduate of the Accademia di Belle Arti (Naples) and the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten (Amsterdam), she has taken part in the 55th Venice Biennale, the 13th Istanbul Biennale, DOCUMENTA 13 and Manifesta 9. Her work has been shown in solo exhibitions (Fondazione Ratti, Como, daadgalerie, Berlin, Protocinema Istanbul, V-A-C Foundation at the GULAG State History Museum, Moscow, Wiels, Brussels, Sculpture Center and e-flux, New York). Rossella Biscotti's awards include the ACACIA Prize for Contemporary Art, the Premio della 16e Quadriennale d'Arte di Roma, the Premio Michelangelo at the XIVth International Sculpture Biennale in Carrara, the 2nd Prix de Rome in the Netherlands and the Premio NY, in collaboration with Columbia University, New York.