ALESSANDRA CALÓ

Biography

Alessandra Calò is an artist who uses different means to explore issues related to identity and memory. Dominant practice in her work is the recovery and reinterpretation of archival materials through which she does not intend to implement a nostalgic evocation of the past but to propose a new vision of reality. In 2015 she participates in European Photography with the Photoscopy project, which became part of the Artphilein Foundation collection (Switzerland); in 2016 her project Secret Garden won the Combat Award for Contemporary Art and subsequently became her first artist's book (2018, Danilo Montanari Editore) – with a special mention at the Bastianelli Award for best photographic book published in Italy - which subsequently enters as part of the Maramotti Collection, Donata Pizzi, MoMA and the Met Museum. In 2018 she participates in the Circulation Festival (Paris) with the Kochan project, and a solo exhibition at the IIC in Madrid for the XIV Contemporary Day. In 2022 she participates in the European Photography festival with HERBARIUM the flowers have remained pink, a project commissioned and created in collaboration with the Civic Museums of Reggio Emilia. In the same year she participated in the Canadian festival Rencontre Photo Gaspesie (Quebec) and in the Photaumnales festival (France) with the Kochan project. She is among the artists selected for IMAGINARIUM: a new production and experiment in contemporary Italian photography, curated by Arianna Catania, for the General Direction of Contemporary Creativity of the Ministry of Culture.   She lives and works in Reggio Emilia

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