ALESSANDRA CAROSI

Resident May 2024

Alessandra Carosi is an Italian visual artist based in Paris. She is an artist in residence at Poush in Paris.

Her practice is mainly focused on the photographic medium with a visual art approach, mixing photography with elements of psychology and anthropology.

She is interested in investigating the possibility to overcome the limit of the photographic medium and transcending the surface of photography. She works with abstraction, evocation, colours and symbolism to translate emotional aspects into “visual synesthesias”.

She has been shortlisted in several international contests like 2019 and 2017 Fondazione Fabbri Award, Premio Combat 2019, Odessa Photodays Award 2020,  Premio Prina 2019 (finalist and Honorable mention), l’Image Satellite in Nice 2020, the Prix Photographie & Sciences 2021 in Toulouse, the Bourse du Talent 2019 (Honorable Mention in Portrait category) in Paris, 2019 Emergentes Award -Encontros da Imagem in Braga, Prix Maison Blanche 2019 (Projections) in PhotoMarseille, 2017 Lucie Foundation Scholarship (Photo made, USA),  and 2017 Photogrvphy Grant Award (nominee in Conceptual category).

She won the first prize at San Fedele Award for Visual Arts (Milan) 2018 and her dummy Ruota has been shortlisted both at 2018 Kassel Dummy Award and 2018 PWA Aarhus Dummy award.

Her projects have been shown both in Italy (Triennale di Milano, Marsell Paradise and Galleria San Fedele in Milan, Centro Pecci per l’Arte Contemporanea in Prato, Fondazione Fabbri in Treviso, Si Fest Off), France (BnF and Grand Palais in Paris, festival Trasphotographiques in Lille and festival l’Image Satellite in Nice, Byopaper and Cosmos in Arles), China (Dali International Photography Exhibition), Spain, Portugal and Japan.

After graduating in Industrial Design, she has been working at Politecnico di Milano as Research Fellow and assisted Italian Master photographer Guido Guidi in Cesena and Thomas Mailaender in Paris. In 2017 she graduated from the Master in Photography at IUAV in Venice.

She regularly participates in international Residencies programs such as Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris (FR), UNIdee-Fondazione Pistoletto (IT), Fondazione Campori (IT), Zero Date Foundation (JP), Bolit Centre d’Art Contemporani (SP), Hangar (PT).

Her artworks are present in private and public collections including la Bibliothèque National de France.

IRIDESCENCE / Studio visit and live performance on the terrace, a composition for voice, machines and colors.

A collaboration between Alessandra Carosi Italian visual artist based in Paris among the May residents for the international program "In Residence" and Thea Soti , sound artist.

Inspired by Alessandra Carosi's project "Towards Empathy," this performance presents a 15-minute composition in which different vocal qualities are attributed to different colors and thus evoke and react to various palettes of emotions. The composition uncovers not only the intuitive reaction of the vocal artist to the colors, but also challenges the audience to move from one emotional quality to another as the colors and voice change. The performance then invites the audience to be an active part of this audiovisual situation, in which movement and emotion creation will be triggered by real-time composition.