Alessandra Ferrini

Alessandra FERRINI (Italy) is a London-based artist-researcher working across moving images, installation and performance-lecture. Ferrini works with moving images, performance-lecture and installation to investigate the enduring legacy of Italian colonialism and fascism across the Mediterranean. She holds a practice-based PhD in filmmaking from the University of the Arts London. Her three-channel video installation Gaddafi in Rome: Notes for a Film was the recipient of the Maxxi Bvlgari Prize 2022, the most prestigious contemporary art award in Italy, and, in 2017, it won the London Film Festival’s Experimenta Pitch Award. More recently, her two-channel video installation Gaddafi in Rome: Anatomy of a Friendship (2024) has been featured in the 60th International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia, Foreigners Everywhere, curated by Adriano Pedrosa. Previously, her work has been screened and exhibited internationally, including at the 5th Casablanca Biennal, MOMus-Museum of Contemporary Art Thessaloniki and Istanbul Biennal collateral, among many others. 

Filmography

Negotiating Amnesia (2015, video), Radio Ghetto Relay (2016, installation), Sight Unseen (2020, installation), Gaddafi in Rome: Notes for a Film (2022, installation), Unsettling Genealogies (2024, installation), Gaddafi in Rome: Anatomy of a Friendship (2024, short)

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