Raffaela Naldi Rossano
Raffaela Naldi Rossano (b. 1990, Naples) is a multi-disciplinary artist who explores a wide range of media, including installation, video, sculpture, text, drawings and performance. Her research has its roots in her psychology studies centred on Jungian and Gestalt Theory, after which she received an MA in photography and moving image at Goldsmiths, University of London; its premises are her investigation of memories and intergenerational transmission. 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 Naldi Rossano is part of the 16th edition of the Sharjah Biennial with a newly commissioned installation. Raffaela Naldi Rossano is the winner of the XIX edition of Premio New York, promoted by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, the Ministry of Culture, with ISCP, Italian Cultural Institute and Columbia University. Her film WARP (2022) was awarded the Special Prize for an Emerging Talent at SMAFF St. Moritz Film Festival and has been exhibited at Fantasmagoriana, LIAF22, Lofoten Biennal curated by Francesco Urbano Ragazzi and at Cinema Galleggiante in Venice curated by TBA21Academy and Barbara Casavecchia.
Recent solo exhibitions are SERPENTINA. Per un mūsēum senza tempo, promoted by Fondazione Elpis as part of Una Boccata d’Arte, Belvì, Sardinia; Undomesticated Voices, double solo show with Lara Damaso at Istituto Svizzero, Milan (2022); How She Spins, solo show expanded curated by Sonia D’Alto, Damien and the Love Guru, Bruxelles (2022); I Confess, solo exhibition curated by Chus Martinez, der TANK, Basel (2019); Partenope, solo exhibition at Aetopoulos, Athens (2019). She was one of the participating artists in the 2020 edition of Quadriennale D’Arte, Rome, curated by Sarah Cosulich and Stefano Collicelli Cagol. Selected group exhibitions are: Spettri, curated by Kathryn Weir, Madre, Naples (2022); Utopia Distopia: il mito del progresso partendo dal Sud, curated by Kathryn Weir, Madre, Naples (2021); There is no Time to Enjoy the Sun, Fondazione Morra Greco, Naples (2021); Waves between Us, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Guarene (2020) ; Doing Deculturalization, Museion, Bozen (2019); May the Bridges I Burn, Manifesta, Palermo (2018). Her artworks are in the public collection of Museo Madre in Naples and private collections in Italy and abroad.
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