Rossella Biscotti's print "The Journey" features three framed images of a dark, ominous sea, using deep blues and blacks to evoke mystery and depth. The composition’s repetition suggests endlessness, capturing the sea's vastness and its symbolic resonance with journeys and migrations. The artistic style is minimalist yet poignant, with a focus on texture and subtle shifts in light. Biscotti's work reflects her approach of intertwining personal narratives with broader societal contexts, inviting reflection on the psychological and political implications of movement and displacement. ...
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. ...
Established in Paris since 2010, mor charpentier represents both emerging and well-established artists whose conceptual practices are anchored in social realities, history and the politics of contrasting geographic regions. By promoting international practices, the gallery aims to broaden the knowledge of crucial debates of the present. A significant inaugural show with Colombian master, Oscar Muñoz, fulfilled a void in the French artistic scene by broadening the spectrum of origins, subjects and identities in the art market. Ever since, a growing number of major international artists have joined the gallery. Coming from different generations and global backgrounds, they all share a commitment to either political, feminist, post-colonial, queer or human rights causes. Amongst them are Lawrence Abu Hamdan, Teresa Margolles, Chen Ching-Yuan, Liliana Porter, Bouchra Khalili, Carlos Motta, Hajra Waheed, and more. Equal gender representation and diversity is also part of the gallery goals, with half of the represented artists being women. In 2021 mor charpentier opened a second exhibition space in Bogotá. This expansion was driven to expand the reach of the gallery program to new publics and encourage artists to explore new territories. It consolidated a long-term bond with the Latin American art scene and the international projection of the gallery. ...
