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Valentina Bonizzi

June 22, 2018

SHORT BIO

Valentina Bonizzi (born in Milan 1982), lived in the UK between 2005 and 2016, is currently based in Tirana. Valentina Bonizzi completed a Master at Glasgow School of Art and a Ph.D at the VRC (University of Dundee, DJCAD) for which she was nominated for the Best Research in Film Award by the Art and Humanities Research Council. Selected exhibitions include: Autostrada Biennale, Prizren, Kosovo, MAXXI, Rome, the National Galleries of Scotland, British School in Rome, Stills Gallery in Edinburgh and Fondazione Fotografia Modena. Amongst other she has presented her work at Ramallah Academy of the Arts, Palestine, Akademie der Künste, Berlin, Cittadellarte Fondazione Pistoletto, Biella, Villa Romana, Florence, CCA in Glasgow.

 

STATEMENT

Digging into archives and communities, Valentina Bonizzi’s work highlights issues of social justice while it uncovers the potentialities of democratization that lay in the artistic re-definition of cartographic practices. Her work explores the role of the image in all its expanded forms considering the politics of time in relation to hybridity, migration and the environment. Some of her films respond to scientific methods of defining citizenship, by carefully presenting the individual within collective history. Valentina works with a variety of media such as film, photography, the archive, sound, radio and performative intervention with music and dialogues.

Among others Bonizzi exhibited at Autostrada Biennale in Prizren (Kosovo), Media Art Festival in MAXXI and the British School in Rome, the National Galleries of Scotland, Stills Gallery and Fondazione Fotografia Modena. She has presented her work in a number of institutions such as Ramallah Academy of the Arts, Akademie der Kunste, Berlin, Fondazione Pistoletto, Biella, Visual Research Centre, Dundee, National Archive and Record Admnistration, Washington, Dokufest, Kosovo. Bonizzi has published with the Journal for Flusser Studies, What legitimates photography?, and the Mauritious Catalogue of the Venice Biennal, When you realised you were a: White. European. Male.

 

Homage to Kafka, still from video, courtesy Valentina Bonizzi
The more to look the more to know, installation at Visual Research Centre, Dundee Contemporary Art, Scotland Backlit print of analogue aerial archival photographs (1940-2003) on custom made light boxes 40x40cm and series of prints on footspeed high white smooth paper, 40x40 cm (2015)
Martesa e Atyre (Their Wedding) courtesy Valentina Bonizzi and ATA
Is it yours_ still from video, courtesy Valentina Bonizzi
Cartographers, still from film, courtesy Valentina Bonizzi
The City and the Blind courtesy Valentina Bonizzi and Forumi i Atyre (ATA) Kamza
How many clouds can you put up there_, still from video, courtesy Valentina Bonizzi
Voicing the Private, courtesy Valentina Bonizzi and Campus in Camps
Homage to Kafka, still from video, courtesy Valentina Bonizzi
Cartographers, still from film, courtesy Valentina Bonizzi

 

Portfolio & CV

Contact: valentinabonizzi@googlemail.com

 

 

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