Bruna Ginammi and Donata Pizzi. Everything Is Portrait
11.3.2021, 9:00 PM
Lab27 is pleased to announce the sixth edition of INCONTRI DI FOTOGRAFIA, which will take place on March 11 at 9:00 PM, broadcast live on Lab27’s YouTube channel.
Together with collector Donata Pizzi, we will introduce the work of artist Bruna Ginammi, focusing on her recent photographic project and publication ‘Home’ (Casa), which will be featured in a performance at the upcoming Venice Architecture Biennale as part of Aristide Antonas’ exhibition.
In 2019, Bruna Ginammi carefully photographed the homes built by African fruit pickers in Rosarno, Reggio Calabria. These structures were located on land provided by their employers, with no assistance, shelter, or services. The guiding concept of the project highlights how African architecture draws on its traditions to demonstrate remarkable adaptability, particularly in adverse environmental conditions, while maintaining originality, creativity, and, above all, dignity. The central idea is balance: far from aesthetic conventions, the architecture reflects an intimate, coherent order and a harmonious unity of parts—an elegant response to an evidently inhumane living condition.
For Bruna Ginammi, photography is art, and everything is a portrait. In 1991, she published the book ‘Lo sguardo del Poeta’, collecting portraits of the most prominent Italian poets of the 20th century. In 1995, she won the European Kodak Prize at the Rencontres d’Arles with the project ‘La decomposizione della materia’, curated by Daniela Palazzoli—a series of portraits capturing transformation and the passage of time, where mold becomes a measure of constant change.
That same year, she participated in the exhibition ‘Un secolo di Ritratto Fotografico in Italia’ (1985–1995), curated by Italo Zannier at the Venice Biennale, Italy Pavilion. Between 1995 and 1998, she produced a body of work on Italian family intimacy, later published in 2003 in the book ‘Famiglie’ (A+Mbookstore, Milan).
From 1993 to 1996, Ginammi documented the destruction and reconstruction of the Milan Contemporary Art Pavilion—a project later revisited in the volume ‘Il tempo, l’architettura e l’uomo’, with Roberta Valtorta and Lucia Matino, curated by Philippe Daverio (A+Mbookstore, 1996).
In 2015, her works were acquired by the Donata Pizzi Collection. In 2021, her project on the homes of Rosarno’s workers was published by A+Mbookstore.
Bruna Ginammi and Donata Pizzi. Everything Is Portrait
11.3.2021, 9:00 PM
Lab27 is pleased to announce the sixth edition of INCONTRI DI FOTOGRAFIA, which will take place on March 11 at 9:00 PM, broadcast live on Lab27’s YouTube channel.
Together with collector Donata Pizzi, we will introduce the work of artist Bruna Ginammi, focusing on her recent photographic project and publication ‘Home’ (Casa), which will be featured in a performance at the upcoming Venice Architecture Biennale as part of Aristide Antonas’ exhibition.
In 2019, Bruna Ginammi carefully photographed the homes built by African fruit pickers in Rosarno, Reggio Calabria. These structures were located on land provided by their employers, with no assistance, shelter, or services. The guiding concept of the project highlights how African architecture draws on its traditions to demonstrate remarkable adaptability, particularly in adverse environmental conditions, while maintaining originality, creativity, and, above all, dignity. The central idea is balance: far from aesthetic conventions, the architecture reflects an intimate, coherent order and a harmonious unity of parts—an elegant response to an evidently inhumane living condition.
For Bruna Ginammi, photography is art, and everything is a portrait. In 1991, she published the book ‘Lo sguardo del Poeta’, collecting portraits of the most prominent Italian poets of the 20th century. In 1995, she won the European Kodak Prize at the Rencontres d’Arles with the project ‘La decomposizione della materia’, curated by Daniela Palazzoli—a series of portraits capturing transformation and the passage of time, where mold becomes a measure of constant change.
That same year, she participated in the exhibition ‘Un secolo di Ritratto Fotografico in Italia’ (1985–1995), curated by Italo Zannier at the Venice Biennale, Italy Pavilion. Between 1995 and 1998, she produced a body of work on Italian family intimacy, later published in 2003 in the book ‘Famiglie’ (A+Mbookstore, Milan).
From 1993 to 1996, Ginammi documented the destruction and reconstruction of the Milan Contemporary Art Pavilion—a project later revisited in the volume ‘Il tempo, l’architettura e l’uomo’, with Roberta Valtorta and Lucia Matino, curated by Philippe Daverio (A+Mbookstore, 1996).
In 2015, her works were acquired by the Donata Pizzi Collection. In 2021, her project on the homes of Rosarno’s workers was published by A+Mbookstore.
