Artist Talk with Marinella Senatore

Artist Talk with Marinella Senatore in the context of her exhibition Marinella Senatore. Remember The First Time You Saw Your Name online via video.

The event will take place digitally via Zoom. You can participate in the Artist Talk using this link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85349973081 (Meeting ID: 853 4997 3081)

For Marinella Senatore, art is a horizontal platform on which different but equal actors form an energetic, unified movement and thus a collective narrative. Emerging from an aesthetic of resistance and the transformative power of social engagement, Senatore’s relational and integrative practice encompasses film, photography, painting, collage, drawing, sculpture, installations, and performance. Characterized by their participatory and political nature, her works explore the potential of art as collaboration to bring about profound social change. The ongoing dialogue between cultural history, pop culture, and social structures is at the heart of the artist’s community-based projects.

Kestner Gesellschaft presents one of her light sculptures on its façade: Remember the First Time You Saw Your Name (2020). Here, the artist focuses herself in a very explicit way on the issue of one’s identity and a sense of individual and collective belonging, once more foregrounding an urgent need for empowerment, emancipation and affection.

Marinella Senatore (born 1977, Cava de’ Tirreni, Italy) studied at the Academy of Fine Arts Naples (1994 - 1997), the Conservatory of Music (1997) and the National Film School in Rome (1999 - 2001). Currently she lives between London and Rome.