Raffaela Naldi Rossano - Today is another day - 2 metal plates with engraving - 2019 - 24,5x5,5 cm each
RAFFAELA NALDI ROSSANO
Born in Naples, Italy, 1990
Lives and works between Naples (Italy) and Athens (Greece)
With her work she intends to provoke a discussion about various themes such as identity, relationships and social culture, through a range of mediums, from installation to video, sculpture, text and performance, in order to create and re-create meanings, individually and collectively. Her work explores the potentiality that emerges from upsetting familiar relations: Raffaella’s complex multi-media installations reveal how language, memory, and spaces—public and private—can confuse power structures and reformulate our experience of the world. Her artistic practice thrives at the intersection of new archeology, desire and collective unconscious, domesticity, interspecies kinships, craft and queer theory together with the reinterpretation and re-writing of mythologies, in the context of the Mediterranean area starting from her hometown Napoli in Southern Italy.
Within the realm of her artistic expression, Naldi Rossano’s work seamlessly weaves together fictional, historical and autobiographical narratives, alternative knowledge, intuitive thinking, spirituality and science and collective actions.
Her artworks are research-driven and process-based, intended as relational vehicles, intermediary spaces that seek to trigger new possible relationships, both psychological and socio-political, between spaces, bodies and objects. They operate as platforms, transitional objects that activate new forms of production and circulation of horizontal and shared knowledge and materialize multiple communities and temporalities.
Raffaela is co-fonder and director of Residency 80121, residency project which aims to cultivate a dialogue between artists and various spaces to support the discussion and exhibition of contemporary art through a direct approach and engagement with each setting to encourage a cultural, but also interdisciplinary exchange in a framework of a humanistic, feminist and ecological discourse.