Artist

Rossella Biscotti

Born in Molfetta, 1978 and lives in Amsterdam, Netherlands

Rossella Biscotti was born in 1978 in Molfetta, Italy. For the past decade, she has been living and working between the Netherlands and her research sites. Her work has been presented in solo exhibitions at CAC Vilnius (2012), Fondazione Galleria Civica di Trento (2010), and the Nomas Foundation, Rome (2009); and group exhibitions at MAXXI, Rome (2010–11), Witte de With, Rotterdam, Museu Serralves, Porto (2010), Manifesta 9 and dOCUMENTA (13), Kassel (2012). In 2013, Biscotti participated in the 55th Venice Biennale and had a solo exhibition at Secession, Vienna.
She uses montage as a gesture to reveal individual narratives and their relation to society. In her cross-media practice, cutting across filmmaking, performance and sculpture, she explores and reconstructs obscured moments from recent times, often against the backdrop of state institutions. In the process of composing her personal encounters and oral interrogations into new stories, the site of investigation tends to leave its mark on her sculptures and installations. By examining the relevance of the recovered material from a contemporary perspective, Biscotti sensibly weaves a link to the present.
Rossella Biscotti’s sculptural works are informed by meticulous research, covering both chronicled and neglected events as well as fictitious elements. They often serve as historical witnesses to contemporary society.
Biscotti often employs the mediums of film, text, sculpture or performance to examine history and events through personal and collective memories. In her work, using rigorous research and fictitious elements, she does not reconstruct historical facts but rather investigates them and our perception of what has happened.

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