About
Born in Milan in 1969, Paola Risoli expresses her work through sculpture, photography, videos, documentaries, drawings and the spoken word.
Born in Milan in 1969, Paola Risoli expresses her work through sculpture, photography, videos, documentaries, drawings and the spoken word.
Paola Risoli was born in Milan in 1969 and is a graduate in film history and criticism. She expresses her work through sculpture, photography, videos, documentaries, drawings and the spoken word. This wide plurality of languages is used to narrate the human condition, the lives lived by others, often the outsiders.
It begins with the interiors, showcased from the outset at international fairs (Art Basel, Artissima 1994). These are interiors of dwellings, outlying urban blocks, emotional places empty of figures, but inhabited often by “hanging” faces in the form of icons, glances captured from the films of Jean-Luc Godard, Alain Resnais, Wim Wenders, Pedro Almodóvar, Shirin Neshat. They are constructed from scraps, small scale, inside improbable containers (fuel canisters, old television sets, combustible fuel drums) and “coloured” with the cinema black and white, or the dense contrasts of Jean-Pierre Jeunet’s films. The artist defines them as “three-dimensional shots,” works of necessity, constructed with next to nothing, as a matter of urgency. Environments that tell stories, in which the eye of the beholder becomes the director.
Her work is documented in the national press and in catalogues and magazines (Tema Celeste, Segno, Artribune, Exibart, Arte).
