BENEDETTA CASAGRANDE

Benedetta Casagrande is a photographer, writer and curator. Her artistic, curatorial and writing practice unfolds through slow research (term coined by Carolyn F. Strauss); slowness as a principle of observation, of attunement, of deceleration and constant repositioning, in an attempt to situate the human experience of the world within wider webs of relations, times and spaces. As a medium which is fundamentally based on encountering the world, she works with photography as a means of entering into a relationship with the surrounding environment and its animal, vegetal and objectual elements, through movements of proximity and distance, presence and absence, contact and loss of contact.

Her work has been exhibited in national and international exhibitions, including Fotografia Europea (Reggio Emilia, 2024), Photo Brussels Festival (2024), ADI Design Museum (Milano, 2023), 副本 INSTANCE (Shanghai, 2021) and Photo Ireland Festival (2019).

Benedetta is one of five founders of Ardesia Projects, a no-profit organisation dedicated to visual culture, and runs the accessible education program “Show and Tell” alongside Elena Vaninetti. Since 2021 she is Head Archivist and Project Manager for the Daniele Tamagni Foundation.

Books by Benedetta Casagrande
ALL THINGS LAID DORMANT