Rossella Biscotti uses montage as a central strategy to uncover individual stories and their intersections with society, while simultaneously revealing the frameworks that shape these narratives. Her multidisciplinary practice spans film, performance, and sculpture, allowing her to investigate and reconstruct social and political events of recent history through the lens of personal experience, often set against the backdrop of violent or rigid institutional systems. By integrating her own perspective and the oral testimonies of participants, she creates alternative accounts of history that exist on the margins of official narratives, emphasizing the subjectivity of memory and the multiplicity of truths. Often beginning her work from a specific site of research or investigation, Biscotti gathers differing and sometimes contradictory testimonies, weaving them into complex visual narratives that highlight the tensions between individual experience and collective history. By reinterpreting these recovered materials from a contemporary perspective, she constructs networks that link past events to present concerns, offering viewers a space to reflect critically on social and political structures. Her practice empowers audiences to engage their imagination, cultural knowledge, and personal experience, creating an active dialogue between art, history, and lived reality. ...
