Bio
Born in 1986 in Sicily.
At the age of two I moved with my family to Tuscany where I grew up. During high school I joined an experimental theatre course where I began to work on the expressiveness of my body. Meanwhile, I found my father's Minolta XG and obsessively photographed in black and white everything surrounded me.
In 2006 I moved to Bologna to study Art History at Dams. I had to leave my theatre group and I began to turn the photographic medium towards myself, starting a photographic research towards the exploration of my interiority and of my personal story.
In 2011 I moved to London to continue my academic studies in Photography. I enrolled to a Master's degree at the London College of Communication.
I work mainly with photography, mixing digital and analogue images, autobiographical texts, family photos, performance and staged portraits. I address themes such as illness, the fragility of the female body, the ambivalent relationship with parental figures, family memory and one's own emotions. Starting from my personal history, I am interested in touching issues that concern the life paths of many. For me, photography is a form of self-therapy and through the self-portrait and the performative act I investigates the ambiguity related to one's individuality and emotionality.
I am also passionate about old analogue techniques and often experiment with expired rolls of film, cyanotypes and rayograms.
I have exhibited my work internationally, in Italy, England, Lithuania and Shanghai.
I live and work in Milan.
CV
Academic Background
2014: MA Photography, London College of Communication.
2011: BA Contemporary Art History, Dams-drama,arts and music studies, University of Bologna.
Selected Group Exhibitions and Projects
26 April - 9 June 2024: Instant Blooming, Fotografia Europea #off, Reggio Emilia.
1 - 5 November 2023: Liquida Photofestival, Paratissima, Torino.
23 March - 23 April 2023: Exclusion, #SameSameButDifferent open call by Perimetro, Base, Milan.
31 May-26 June 2021: Corpi, Circuiti Dinamici, Milan.
November 2019-January 2020: 9th V&A Staff Exhibition, Victoria and Albert Museum.
22-27 September 2017: Vacant, In Use, Old Police Station Deptford, London.
22 June-17 July 2017: Traces, Free Space Project, Kentish Town Health Center, London.
April 2017: London Pinhole Festival, Four Corners, London.
February-June 2016: 7th V&A Staff Exhibition, Victoria and Albert Museum.
March 2016: 26 Caledonian Road, a project by LCC MA Photography alumni group, Geddes Gallery, London.
8 August-5 September 2015: 房间里的____ in the Room, V Art Center, Shanghai.
22 November-1 December 2014: MA Final Show, London College of Communication.
12-14 September 2014: London Analog Festival, Bargehouse Oxo Tower Wharf, London.
12-14 September 2014: Doomed Gallery Polaroid Show, London.
7-14 March 2014: MA Photography Interim Show, London College of Communication.
7-10 December 2013: Making Culture, A Side - B Side Projects, Hackney Downs Studios, London.
February 2013: Art Below London, Underground Gallery, London.
25 April-2 May 2012: European project 'Youth Exchange', AV 17 Gallery, Vilnius.
May 2011: 'Graceful Ghosts' Exhibition of Alessandra Rinaudo and Valentina D'Accardi, AV 17 Gallery, Vilnius.
22-31 July 2010: Kilow'art Temporary Gallery, VIII edition of Kilow'art Festival, San Sepolcro.
July 2010: 'Summertime', BT'f Art Gallery, Bologna.
May 2009: Karma Art Expò, Arteria space, Bologna.
January 2008: 'Berlin Marmelade' (solo exhibition) Ex Mercato 24, Bologna.
Scholarship
2012: Recipient of a Rector's Scholarship for Postgraduate study.
Publications
2023: PurpleHaze Magazine Book 009, The Body Issue
2022: Accademia di Fotografia, Nikon School.
2020: Italy Photo Award, Italian Collection 2020.
2019: Uncertain States Issue 31 "Transformation".
Selected talks
2021:' Immagini Parlanti', Archivissima edition 2021 'Generazioni', online symposium.
2020: 'Temperature Check', LCC MA Photography Alumni Network Presentation, online symposium.
2017: Talk to MA Photography students at London College of Communication.
Others
2017: Part of the Jury for Metro Imaging Prize to London College of Communication MA Photography student.