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
2024Förderstipendium, 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