Benedetta Montini: Photoperformer

© Benedetta Montini

About The Exhibition:

Exhibition curator: Roberto Muffoletto

The VASA exhibition by Italian artist Benedetta Montini provides the viewer with multiple entryways into her creative processes.  Through collages, videos and “photoperformances”, she addresses issues concerning the body (as a performance artist) and challenges the observer to go deeper into their reflections on personal struggles, as she states:  “I am a conceptual artist who uses photography as one of many means, but I also use video, painting, collage and visual poetry. What I am looking for is above all an empathic relationship between my work and the people who look at it.”

Montini is not gentle with our minds or our feelings.  Montini leads us to confront our own connections to our past and our lived anxieties.  The collective work here is a performance within our own minds.

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On VASA Exhibitions:

VASA Exhibitions over the years have provided an international platform for individual and group exhibitions, collaborative exhibitions with various organizations and galleries and exhibitions that follow a particular theme or inquiry such as “Where Do We Go Now” curated by Rui Cepeda and the “Kharkiv School of Photography: Soviet Censorship to New Aesthetics” curated by Igor Manko.

VASA Exhibitions are international and multicultural.  The curatorial team has strived to present work that not only represents the photographers but also the social, historical and cultural.  As an online international project, VASA works to engage various digital tools.  Video, as an example, not only offers the potential for the presentation of works, it provides the opportunity and framework for the voice of the author to be seen and heard.   Through image, text, sound and animation, VASA works to expand the exhibition paradigm and provide a rich experience for the viewer (as well as the author).

VASA Exhibitions provides a viewing and research environment by archiving all of the exhibitions in their entirety. For example, the viewer may view a 2009 exhibition as it was presented and not just traces of its existence.

VASA Exhibitions (a program in VASA) includes images, videos and sound works.