Education
November 2020 – now PhD Candidate in Visual, Performing and Media Arts (XXXVI cycle)
Alma Mater Studiorum – University of Bologna (Italy)
Research project in Contemporary Art History (L-ART/03). Title: Esposizioni radicali. Politiche e poetiche della fotografia nello spazio pubblico [Radical Exposure. Politics and Practices of Photography in Public Space]. Supervisor: Prof. Claudio Marra, Co-Supervisor: Prof. Anna Rosellini.
2019 MA in Visual Arts (LM-89) | Alma Mater Studiorum – University of Bologna (Italia)
Final dissertation in Theories and Practices of Photography. Title: Le esposizioni fotografiche. Idee della fotografia in mostra [Photographic Exhibitions. Photography and Its Displays]. Supervisor: Prof. Claudio Marra, Co-Supervisor: Prof. Anna Rosellini.
2016 BA in DAMS – Drama, Art and Music Studies (L-3) | Alma Mater Studiorum – University of Bologna (Italia)
Final dissertation in History of Photography. Title: Temi e sviluppi nella ricerca fotografica di Christian Boltanski [Themes and Evolutions in Christian Boltanski’s Photography]. Supervisor: Prof. Claudio Marra.
Conferences
- "Realismo catastrofista: temi e problemi dell'arte pubblica nella crisi climatica", La fine e altri inizi II: Oltre la catastrofe, curated by Daniel Borselli, Raffaella Perna, Roberto Pinto, Jannik Pra Levis, at Sapienza Università di Roma, promoted by Visual, Performing, and Media Arts Ph.D. Course, University of Bologna, History of Art Ph.D. Course, Sapienza University of Rome, in partnership with Fondazione La Quadriennale di Roma, 14-15 September 2023.
- "Limits of Documentary Realism and Post-Photographic Narratives in the Anthropocene" (with Giorgia Ravaioli), Expanded Visualities. Photography and Emerging Technologies, Sixth International Conference of Photography and Theory, International Association of Photography and Theory (IAPT), CYENS - Centre of Excellence, Nicosia (Cyprus), 17-19 November 2022.
- "La narrazione dissonante della fotografia" ["The Dissonant Narratives of Photography"], workshop Storytelling. Esperienze e comunicazione del Cultural Heritage, curated by Sandra Costa, University of Bologna, Politecnico di Milano, Université Paris 1 (Panthéon–Sorbonne), 26 October-6 December 2022.
- “Darkness Visible: The Art of Occupying Public Space as a Space of Appearance”, IV International Conference of PhD Students Space Oddity: Exercises in Art and Philosophy, curated by Giulia Gelmi, Anastasia Kozachenko-Stravinsky, Andrea Nalesso, Università Ca’ Foscari di Venezia, 5-7 October 2022.
- "Esposizione radicale: l'arte pubblica al tempo della sua neutralizzazione capitalistica" ["Radical Exposure: Public Art in the Age of its Capitalistic Neutralisation"], Ph.D. workshop La fine e altri inizi. Workshop dottorale sull'arte dal 1990, curated by Roberto Pinto, Daniel Borselli, Arianna Casarini, Visual, Performing, and Media Arts Ph.D. Course, University of Bologna, in collaboration with La Quadriennale di Roma, 8-9 September 2022.
- "Exposed! Redefining ‘Publicness’ in and through Public Art Photography", research conference Public!, curated by Francesco Monico, Michele Cerruti But, and Paolo Naldini, Accademia Unidee - Scuola di Arti Visive, Biella, 30 June-1 July 2022.
- "Framing the Future: Year 3 di Steve McQueen e la fotografia nello spazio pubblico" [“Framing the Future: Steve McQueen’s Year 3 and Photography in Public Space”], international conference Paradigmi del fotografico. Teorie e poetiche in dialogo con le arti visive, Dipartimento delle Arti, Università di Bologna, in collaboration with con DAMSLab, La Soffitta and Fondazione MAST, 24-25 September 2021.
- "The Most Radical Exposure. Displaying Photography in Public Space", III International Conference of PhD Students Behind the Image, Beyond the Image, Università Ca' Foscari di Venezia, 22-24 September 2021.
- "Lontano dagli occhi, lontano dalla storia. Fotografie (im)possibili per l'archivio del futuro" [“Away From the Eyes, Away From History. (Im)possible Photographs for the Future Archive”, international conference La vertigine dell'archivio. Arte, collezionismo, poetiche, Dipartimento delle Arti, Università di Bologna, in collaboration with FICLIT and Consorzio Italo-francese Fonte Gaia, 5-6-7 June 2019.
Teaching Activities
A.Y. 2020-2021 – now Teaching assistant in History of Photography at the Department of Arts, University of Bologna (Prof. Claudio Marra).
A.Y. 2020-2021 Teaching assistant in Displaying Photography in Art and in Cultural & Creative Industries at the Department of Arts, University of Bologna (Prof. Federica Muzzarelli).
Research Groups
April 2020 Member of the research group “Spazi ed attori del collezionismo e della connoisseurship”, coordinator: Prof. Sandra Costa - Department of the Arts, University of Bologna, in partnership with the research group “Patrimoine et Musées” of Université Paris 1 (Panthéon–Sorbonne) and with CeSPitA - Centro Interuniversitario di Ricerca “Centro Studi sulla Pittura Antica” - Department of History and Cultures, University of Bologna.
