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Serena Vittorini<\/a> is a visual artist based in Brussels. In 2020 she directed her first short-film \u2018En ce moment\u2019. Since it was aired at Pink Screens Festival<\/a>, the movie was selected at the \u201cGiornate degli Autori\u201d of the Venice Film Festival<\/a> and the BBC Longshots Film Festival<\/a> in New York.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Next to that, Serena has showcased several exhibitions. Her current research practice incorporates photography, installation, audio and video to allow for a multi-layered interpretation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We’ve met with Serena to discuss her work and next project \u2018I built a wall\u2019, which will be shown in 2023 at the MAAC gallery<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tell us a bit about yourself. What has been your journey?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mi chiamo Serena Vittorini e sono un\u2019artista di origini italiane. I’ve been living in Brussels for two years now, I mainly work on corporate still life and portrait photography, and on personal projects thanks to the support of some institutions and galleries here in Belgium. My way of photographing has changed a lot over the years: during school I was very interested in portrait and reportage photography (which I name separate, although I think it’s useless not to talk about a mixture of styles). At the end of my studies I started to collaborate with a photographic studio in Rome that works on still life assignments for big food, jewellery and clothing brands. I’ve been collaborating with them for almost three years and I’m slowly realizing how much this has influenced me. I have always tried to maintain the attention to detail and precision that is typical of product photography and I have tried to use it outside the context of the studio. I realised my first projects immediately after my return to L\u2019Aquila, my hometown in Italy which was hit by a violent earthquake in 2009 that destroyed a large part of it. At that moment I was reading a book by Sergio Givone on the philosophy of aesthetics, and taking inspiration from his writings I decided to focus my attention on objects and their symbolic meaning and still life was a perfect technique for that. So the project I did was to find objects used for renovation on construction sites, paint them white and photograph them on a white background, on the same street where I found them and with the lights of the street lamps. This choice is clearly an attempt to maintain contact with reality while giving those objects – and by extension the city – a new face. Also in another project I recently made “Dans mon souvenir c’\u00e9tait blanc” I had this need to de-contextualise the subjects to focus on their possible reading on several levels. This project was commissioned by a cultural center in Belgium. I had just arrived in this country and I had started to wonder what I could do, what it could represent for me in that moment. After some research I discovered the tragic story of the Bois du Cazier, which was a mine located in the small Belgian town of Marcinelle where many Italians migrants died after an explosion. I started to be more and more interested in that period, in the Italian emigration after the Second World War (which had also affected my family, in particular my grandfather) and I asked then for a collaboration with the museum that is now there, because I wanted to work also with the archive. I spent a lot of time looking for testimonies, anecdotes, stories, old photographs, documents, believing at the beginning that I was collecting material to create a historiographical work. But I was wrong. When I started producing images, I realized that I was also talking about myself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n