Vittoria Gerardi

Italy, 1996

Biography

Vittoria Gerardi is an Italian photographer who started to become familiar with photography at the age of sixteen. Shortly after, she began to observe and absorb the world around herself exploring shapes, substances, sounds.

For its multi-layered nature photography more than any other form of art has satisfied in her that particular search she was waiting for to embrace reality in a new way. After high school she moved to New York where she attended the International Center of Photography and worked as assistant to Italian photographer Renato D’Agostin.

In 2016, her first series of photographs entitled Confine, Vittoria found the inspiration for in the desert of Death Valley, in the United States. The elements of light and time that originated this experience are visualised as a selection of photographic fragments of the desert, condensed in the space of a line or other symbolic shapes. The tonalities surrounding those forms are achieved through the alteration of the chemical process, a process which Vittoria is constantly exploring in the darkroom, as she works on the “fragility” of the light-sensitive paper and analyses how the intensity of light gradually affects and changes the pure white into a wide range of browns and greys.

The time-matter explored in Confine became a motif and now resonates in her current project called Pompeii, in which she evokes the immortality of the lost city and the subtil equilibrium between what has been discovered and what is still buried. Vittoria Gerardi was born in Venice in 1996. She lives and works in London.

Selected Artist Works

Solo Exhibitions

2023
”A Black And White Journey”, Bigaignon, Paris

2022
”Latenza”, Darmo, Antibes
”Radical Perspectives”, Bigaignon, Paris

2021
”Latenza”, Paris Photo, Paris

2020
”United”, Galerie Bigaignon, Paris

2019
”Pompeii”, Galerie Bigaignon, Paris
”Confine”, Arte Fiera, Bologne, mc2gallery

2018
”Confine”, Foire APPROCHE, Paris
”Confine”, Unseen Photo Fair, Amsterdam
”L’Altro Sguardo”, Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome
”Confine America”, Leica Gallery, Bologne

2017
”Confine”, mc2gallery, Milan
”Confine”, Bigaignon, Paris
”Confine / 7439”, Musei Civici, San Donà di Piave

2016
”Periscope”, mc2gallery, Milan
”Homo Pagus Minor”, APART spazio critico, Vicenza
”Periscope”, Palazzo Marliani Cicogna, Busto Arsizio

Awards

2020
”Deceptive Images, Playing with Painting and Photography”, Marta Herford Museum, Germany