Rä di Martino (Rome, 1975) studied in London where she’s graduated with an MFA at the Slade School of Art and now lives and works in Turin.
Her practice explores the passage of time, as well as the discrepancies that differentiate epic narratives from lived experiences. Her works are characterized by a tension between pathos and a certain detachment: a disconnectedness that interrupts the synchronicity binding image and text.
Her film, video installations and photos have been shown in many institutions, museums and film festivals including: Moma-PS1, NY; Palazzo Grassi, Venice; Tate Modern, London; NiMK Netherlands Media Arts, Amsterdam; MCA Chicago; Artists Space, New York; the Busan Biennial; Manifesta; the Turin Triennal, Locarno and Torino International Film Festival, Viper Basel and Transmediale Berlin.
Solo Exhibitions: 2017 The Sun or an Electric Light, Galleria Monica De Cardenas, Milano; 2015 Certo è ch’io nacqui, Istituto Nazionale della Grafica, Roma; On Making a Circle to Swim Under Water, Collicaligreggi Gallery, Catania; Staging the Screen: Fatma Bucak & Rä di Martino, The Ryder, Londra; 2014 Authentic News of Invisible Things, Copperfield Gallery, Londra; Authentic News of Invisible Things, Museion, Bolzano; Authentic News of Invisible Things, nctm per l’arte, Milano; Marilyn, Galleria Il Capricorno, Venezia; 2013 Dis-Orient, with Nedim Kufi, Sumarria Lunn Gallery, Londra; 2012 Greater Torino, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Torino; 2011 Monitor Gallery, Roma; 2010 Artscape, Vilnius Cultural Capital of Europe, Vartaj Gallery; Artissima, Torino; 2009 The Night Walker and Other Works, CAV, Coimbra, Portogallo; August 2008, Monitor Gallery, Roma; Espace Doll, Les Urbaines Festival, Losanna; 2008 The Night Walker, Maze Gallery, Torino; 2007 The Red Shoes – Present Future, Artissima, Torino; 2006 La camera, Macro, Roma; 2005 The Dancing Kid, Monitor Gallery, Roma; 2003 Monitor Gallery, Roma.
Group exhibitions: 2016 Le storie esistono solo nelle storie, La Quadriennale di Roma, Roma; 2015 Levitate, Quarter 21, Museum Quartier, Vienna; Reverse Inequality, Patrick Ebensperger Galerie, Berlino; Concrete, The Tophane-i amire Arts Center/Mimar Sanalar Universiti, Istanbul; Cosa vuoi che sia, Fondazione Remotti, Camogli; Le Point De Fuite De l’Histoire, Centre d’art et photographie de Lectoure, Francia; Fashion as Social Energy, Palazzo Morando, Milano; Club of Matineè idolz, CO2 Gallery, Torino; 2014 71° Venice film Festival, venice days, Venezia; Soleil Politique, Museion, Bolzano; Glitch, PAC, Milano; Open Museum, Open City, Maxxi, Roma; Premio Maretti, Havana, Cuba; Art & Application, Lawrie Shabibi Gallery, Dubai; Concrete, Muma, Museum of Monash University, Melbourne; Worlds in Collision, Samstaag Museum, Adelaide International, Australia; Displacement, MAXXX Project, Sierre, CH; VAF Foundation Award, Schauwerk Sindelfingen & Stadtgalerie Kiel, Germania; Meraviglioso, Fondazione VOLUME, Roma; 2013 Ruins in reverse, Tate Modern, London / MALI, Lima; Andata e Ricordo, Souvenir de Voyage, MART, Trento e Rovereto; Remainder, BWA Sokòl Gallery of Contemparary Art, Nowy Sącz, Polonia; Clueless, , HDLU, Zaghreb; 2012 2nd Mardin Biennale, Mardin, Turchi; Lo sguardo espanso, Cinema d’artista 1912-2012, Guglielmo Found, Catanzaro; Mission Afterviews, Victoria theatre, San Francisco; Fantasie fluttuanti, Torrione Passari Molfetta; Re-generation, MACRO, Roma; Silence Where Things Abandon Themselves, MCA, Zaghreb; 2011 When in Rome, IIC/Laxart, Los Angeles; Terre vulnerabili, Hangar Bicocca, Milano; 2010 SI Sindrome Italiana, Magasin, Grenoble; VideoZone 5°, International VideoArt Biennal, Tel Aviv, Israele; VideoReport, Galleria Comunale d’Arte Contemporanea, Monfalcone; Rambo in Love, Theatre Roxy, Basel; Linguaggi e Sperimentazioni, MART, Rovereto; Visions in the Nunnery, Bow Arts Trust, Londra; Person in Less, Fondazione Sandretto, Alba Guarene/Palazzo Ducale, Genova; Mal d’archive, Friche la belle de Mai, Marseille/Careof, Milano; Clueless, Manifattura Tabacchi, Torino; 2009 Italics, MCA, Chicago; Fuori Centro, also co-curated, HangarBicocca, Milan; Work.in.Space, Connaught House, Ballsbridge, Dublin; Lumen, Centro Pecci, Prato; Eppur si muove, Fondazione Sandretto, Alba Guarene & Palazzo Ducale,Genova; KunstFilmBiennale, Cologne & Bonn; Flower Power, Villa Giulia, Verbania; Solo al buio, Mercati di Traiano, Roma; The Buffer Zone, American Academy in Rome; Financial District, ISCP Studios, Brookyn NY; Back and Forth, James Taylor Gallery, Londra; 2008 Manifesta7, Rovereto; Italics, Palazzo Grassi, Venezia; Worlds on Video, Palazzo Strozzi, Firenze; How Soon Is Now? AIM program, Bronx Museum, NY; Tarantula, Piazza Duomo, Fondazione Trussardi, Milano; Quadriennale di Rome, Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Roma; Here Once Again, Loop Gallery & MOA, Seoul; Hot Season, Italian Art Now, Stenersen Museum, Oslo; 2007 Senso Unico, MOMA-PS1, Long Island NY; Art Summer University, Tate Modern, Londra; Off Screen, Montevideo – Netherlands Media Art Institute, Amsterdam; Film Program, Slovenian Pavillion, 52nd La Biennale di Venezia; Carte Blanche, Elizabeth Dee Gallery, NYC; Dwelling Among the Elsewheres, Botkyrka Kohnstahlle, Stoccolma; The World Is Yours, Oliver Kamm5BE Gallery, New York; TV Dinners, Lmak Projects, New York; 2006 Altered, Stitched and Gathered, PS1 Art Center, Long Island City, New York; Busan Biennale, Busan, South Korea; Setting The Scene, commission, MACRO & Discoteca di Stato, Roma; FRAME, Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces, Melbourne; The Mind/Body Problem, Artists Space, NY; 2005 T1 TriennaleTorinoTreMusei, Fondazione Sandretto; Follow Your Shadow, Galleria d’Arte Moderna, GAM, Bologna, Premio Furla; Tracce di un seminario, 2004, VIA FARINI, Milano; 2004 All Tomorrow’a Parties, The Yugoslav Biennal of Young Artists, Vrsac, Serbia; Surely We Will Be Confused, Fondazione Ratti, Como; VideoZone 2°, Intern.l VideoArt Biennal, Tel Aviv, Israele; Our Personal Vision, Futura Gallery, Praga; 2002 Beck’s Futures Student Film Award, ICA, Londra.
Personal web site: www.radimartino.com