Hi, welcome. I’m Chiara.
I’m a curator and a visual artist, working primarily with photography and video art.
Photography is my first medium. In the fear of what’s truly important getting lost, I remove the non-relevant, to focus on nature, structures, ruins, objects, symbols, light and impersonal human figures. These subjects are tightly locked in space and serve as quiet but vital interpreters of reflections on time, impermanence, feelings of belonging, inadequateness, resistance, mystery, sacrality. Underlying is an idea of unity, connectedness; not in a rainbow-like sense nor blind to the "violence" of the world, but rather through it, expressing an appreciation of life. Everything can speak to everything else. The often sullen atmospheres that emerge through the inanimate subjects I select, invite viewers, whether individually or collectively, to choose to see through each other, transcend limits, accept each other in spite of pain and difference. I try to stick to the truth of what I see, amplifying the essence of my subjects, with only as many posterior interventions as are strictly necessary to let that essence emerge more clearly.
While video is a medium I am just approaching, reason why you won’t find many traces of this body of work on this portfolio, I see it as a way to use sound, moving image and poetry to move beyond silence, towards intensity, narrative and a more emotional engagement.
As a curator, which I see and experience as an artistic practice, rooted in intersectional artistic fields, I am developing a curatorial method, based on research on the intersection of art and ritual, to move beyond predictable exhibiting formats, into less conventional spaces, striving to create the conditions for art experiences to be intense journeys of real individual and collective transformation.
My approach to curation is deeply artistic: I let the place drive me, working with a site- and context-specific approach, responding to the needs of the institution, organization, or community I collaborate with, as well as the audience I address.
Expert in issues of museum studies and community development, drawing from a background in Management of Cultural Assets and from work experiences in a wide array of Institutional and independent artistic contexts, I see art as a potent, tangible means to impact the world for the better, that is, by empowering others to feel, learn and be in touch with themselves. I strive to create associations between fields, seek multisensory and hone my artistic sensitivity to create liminal spaces for communitas to emerge.
Academic CV
Master of Science | Copenhagen Business School | Management of Creative Business Processes | 2020-2022 | Copenhagen, Denmark
Bachelor of Science | Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore | Economics and Management of Art and Cultural Assets | 2017-2020 | Milan, Italy
Free Standing - Narrative in the Visual Arts | Berlin Art Institute \ Environmental Visual Practices | HDK Valand \ Curating through Themes | MoMa Learning