FRANCESCA CatellanI

I’m a visual artist based in Reggio Emilia, Italy. I come from the DanceTheater scene and I’ve been working for several years with different groups, with the aim of developing expressive and creative potential within people through body and words. Also, since more than 10 years I’m undertaking a creative path through photography and audiovisual – but my journey is only apparently heterogeneous. The topic of human being, of our existence in the dimension of space and time, plus the experience of living itself, within its own mystery, are the main focus of my work. The research I carry out feeds on the study of oriental philosophies as well as great occidental thinkers. The projects’ times of gestation are dilated, as I wouldn’t start from pre-established ideas. I rather move from inner images and wait, as the process will lead to the manifestation of unprecedented images, together with the understanding of the deep meaning of what I’m doing. Creation’s time is slow, it’s made of the art on listening, of doing and not doing. I observe and investigate the contemporary reality I’m part of, and though photography is the favoured tool I constantly shift my focus, each time experimenting with other medium within the quest for a better support for expression.