Statement




3D Modeling, Data Manipulation, Renderings, Animations and Installation Design are some of the principal tools through which I explore and develop my artistic practice. These operational devices constitute an inescapable step towards addressing, catching and rendering visible the unseen, a core-subject for my works. To live within a body driven by invisible and fragile internal regulation, both physical and emotional, is a collective restraint whose logic can be mapped only via personal experiences together with technological tools that enable their narration. This awareness exposes me to the desire for a world building in which sickness, pain and griefs can be reframed and glorified; sensing the liberatory promises of the cyborg not into its monolithic mythologies but in its reality of partial objects nestled in a network of relations.

Text by Curator Arianna Lodice


CV


Sofia Talanti (they/them)

Cyborg intersectional feminist multimedia artist

Born in Florence, Italy in 1995
Currently  based in Linz, Austria



EDUCATION


2022-ongoing
MA Interface Cultures, Media studies department, University of Art and Design of Linz, Austria

2019
MA Design of Museum Installations, Palazzo Spinelli, Florence, Italy

2018
BA Sculpture 110 with honors, Academy of Fine Arts, Carrara, Italy



SELECTED EXHIBITIONS


2024
Ars Electronica Festival, Touching Thoughts, Servus & JKU LIT Med, Linz, Austria
Entangles Homes, curated by FIFTITU%, Galerie WHA, Linz, Austria
Ars Electronica Festival, Campus, NOUS, Interface Cultures, Linz, Austria
IMMATERIAL, Tabakalera, Donostia - San Sebastian, Spain
Elektron - Datamorphosis, Bridderhaus, Luxemburg
Cross Sections, Galerie WHA, Linz, Austria
Self Euphoria, Artiglieria, Florence, Italy - solo exhibition

2023
Queer Pandèmia - genesi di una metamorfosi, curated by Ultraqueer, Parentesi, Roma, Italy 
Ars Electronica Festival 2023 - Cytolon’s Whisper, OÖ Kunstverein, curated by Manuela Naveau, Linz, Austria
Queer Pandèmia, curated by Ultraqueer, Base, Milano, Italy   
Desire Generation/DIGI-GXL, Dalton Superstore , London, UK   
Linea Festival /OPEN Architecture of Interior Space ,  BI-BOx , Biella, Italy

2022
Sankt Interface, Interface Cultures, Kunstuniversität Linz, Linz
RETIME, Reconnecting, DH5, Linz, Austria - solo exhibition
ReA! Art Fair, Fabbrica del Vapore, Milano - shortlisted artist
Two hours ago I fell in Love festival, Colonia Novarese, Rimini, Italy
TALES Racconti dal tempo che viviamo, curated by MiDi Motori Digitali, Daste Bergamo, Bergamo
Artefici del nostro Tempo, Forte Marghera padiglione 29, Venezia, Italy
Plus 2022, curated by Presa Multipla, Rumah Largo Venue , Roma, Italy

2021
Open House - Visual Directions, curated by THP, Podere San Giorgio, Pisa, Italy
Walk-in Studio - Il mio 3 ° Compleanno, Studio Scalzo, Milan, Italy
KERIGMA - The Room Outside, artistic duo Sorus, curated by Time out vibes, Combo Social Club, Florence, Italy
Situ festival, curated by Zona Blu, Militello in val di Catania, Italy
Sampierdarena Pantagruelica, curated by MIXTA, CCBUR, Genoa, Italy
Sand. Display. Dialogue, happening/installation, artistic duo Sorus, curated by  Time out vibes, FAF, Florence, Italy
Margine, curated by Eterotopie, Torre Guelfa and Palazzo del Pegaso, Florence, Italy

2020
Abstractions, curated by LoosenArt, online
Ladies Drawing Clüb, online

2019
The Wrong Biennale, curated by InAbsentia, online
Ronzii-visioni digitali, curated by Fucina Contemporanea, Pisa, Italy   
Copula Mundi, experimental festival, Florence, Italy 
 
2017 

TH exhibition, curated by (t-acca), Accademia di Belle Arti di Carrara, Italy   

2016 

Con-vivere Carrara Festival, curated by Donne senza frontiere, Carrara, Italy 

2011      
Futulibero, SACI Gallery - Studio Arts Center International of Florence, Italy


AWARDS & GRANTS

2024 
Förderstipendium
, Kunstuniversität Linz, Austria
Leistungsstipendium, Kunstuniversität Linz, Austria
2022 
Artefici del nostro Tempo
, Forte Marghera padiglione 29, Venezia, Italy - shortlisted artist


RESIDENCIES


2023 -2024
Immaterial, Tabakalera Medialab, Donostia, San Sebastián, Spain / Online - selected artist

2022  
Plus 2022, curated by Presa Multipla, Rumah Largo Venue , Roma, Italy
Artist is Absent, curated by NVAIR, Online  - selected artist

2021   
Situ festival, curated by Zona Blu, Militello in val di Catania, Italy  - selected artist
Margine, curated by Eterotopie, Torre Guelfa, Florence, Italy   - selected artist



SELECTED PUBLICATIONS/ARTICLES


Sofia Talanti Reconnects Feminine and Masculine through 3D Scans of Their Body by Pia Diamandis, 2024
PUNTURE 6, Interview (ita) by Physalia, 2023
Da Base Milano è Queer Pandemia: immagini, corpi e voci per soggettività LGBTQIA+, Exibart - 2023
Featured on the e.i.i.i. issue #2  - 2022
Margine: la mostra conclusiva della residenza artistica all’Hotel Torre Guelfa, Exibart - 2021
Featured on the Loosenart Magazine  - 2020