Bea Roggero Fossati

Bea Roggero Fossati

About

My practice is related to the environment and the implications of the relationship between humans and nature.

I believe in finding a way to survive through the current climate and current economic and political crisis through storytelling and a changing of perspective about the environment in which we live.

People often see nature in terms of dualistic and clearly delimited notions such as “natural and unnatural”, “alive or dead” or “human or not human”, when in reality, nature exists in a continuous state. The idea of the “natural” arises from human perspectives on nature, not “nature” itself.

I try and capture the immersive nature and the overwhelming force of these landscapes with installation work, sculptures, and photography. I tend to mix synthetic and natural elements in all my work, sometimes in a deceiving fashion, always aiming at wonder and awe.

I prefer transparent and translucent materials, thin paper, luminous prints. With my work I investigate the mythopoeic force of the observation of nature, the almost magical spell of the product of chance and interactions, drawing from a broader discourse on the anthropocene, capitalocene, climate change, quantum mechanics, and queer ecology.

By rejecting human exceptionalism and anthropocentrism and allowing the infinite and the sacred to penetrate into the finite and the trivial, it is possible to learn and live in the debris of this world.

B.1982, lives and works between Nizza Monferrato and Milano.

Exhibitions

2023

Stresstest Newscenario – Group Exhibition, Newscenario, Berlin, Germany

2022

Barahonda – Group Exhibition, Bardadino, Venice, Italy PostHOME – Solo exhibition, PostHOME, Milan, Italy Lunatika – Group exhibition, ExMattatoio, Rome, Italy

2021

VIR – Viafarini In Residence – Group exhibition, Viafarini, Milano, Italy A Modern Model of an Unseen Scene – Group exhibition, Safehouse, London, UK

2020

Quattro Sguardi sull’Arte – Group exhibition, Calosso Townhall, Calosso, Italy

2018

Festival of Prints – Group exhibition, The Art Pavillion, London, UK FinalShow – Group exhibition, UAL Camberwell, London, UK MA and Other Postgraduates Exhibition – Group exhibition, Atkinson Gallery, Millfield, UK

2017

Festival of Prints – Group exhibition, The Art Pavillion, London, UK Interval – Group exhibition, Lumberjack Coffee, London, UK Midway – Group exhibition, Standpoint Gallery, Hoxton, London, UK

Residencies

2022

UVA Artist-in-Residence – Founder one month residency in rural northern Italy, Nizza Monferrato, in a farmhouse completed with workshops and with a rich educational program

2022

PostHOME – 2 weeks residency in Milan, planning and installing an installation work for the designer apartment/showroom PostHOME run by Thirtyone Design Studio in Rome.

2021

VIR – Viafarini In Residence – 4 months residency in Milano, Italy, in the studios of Viafarini – La Fabbrica del Vapore

Education

2016-2018

University of the Arts London, London, UK
MA Visual Arts Printmaking

2005-2008

Ca’ Foscari University, Venice, Italy
MA in East Asian Languages and Civilizations

2001-2005

Ca’ Foscari University, Venice, Italy
BA in East Asian Languages and Cultures