ARTIST STATEMENT
Sara Marinangeli (born 1993 in Macerata, Italy) is a photographer and video artist, based in London.
In 2016 she obtained her BA with Honor in Fine Art, in Florence, after taking part in the Erasmus + project in FAMU, Academy of Performing Arts, Prague.
In 2019 Sara graduated from the Royal College of Art, MA in Photography.
Selected for the SW Darkroom Residency Award and The Labyrinth Lab / RCA Award 2019. Her work has been shown in Italy, England and Czech Republic.
Recurring themes of her work are the memory, time and loss; indelible marks that are part of everybody's life.
In her practice she combines portrait, landscape and still-life photography, using analog mediums.Films give her the chance to underline the connection between the handcraft and the passing of time. The time spent in the darkroom gives another value and greater importance to the final work.
As Brian Dillon states, In the Dark Room, the work in the darkroom becomes a metaphor of the artist's memory.
Through her practice, she intends to give a new life to processes, moments, people or feeling that are part of our past.
CV
WORK EXPERIENCE
September 2018-Present-Freelance Photographer, Video, Photography,Processing, developing, scanning still images and moving image • currently working for On8mil Analogue Image.
January-June 2017-Assistant in a Photography Archive, Fototeca di Altidona, Fermo, Italy Organized the archive, especially Mario Dondero’s films and prints; digitalized and scanned the photo materials; helping on the set up new exhibitions.
January-May 2015 -Trainee for the visual artist Stefano Fake, Fake Factory, Firenze, Italy,Worked on the Adobe Suite to realize and immersive video experience “Rinascimento VideoExperience”; and “African tribes” for La Pergola Museum in Florence.
May-July 2014-Trainee in the production field of “Tempo instabile con probabili schiarite” film directed by M. Pontecorvo, Panorama Films, Roma, Italy,Office work; organized the timetable for part of the troupe; runner for the set.
EDUCATION
September 2017/2019-Royal College of Art, MA Photography. Dissertation-Distinction
2015-2016 Erasmus + at FAMU, Academy of Performing Arts, Prague
2012-2016BA with Honours in Fine Arts, Graphic Arts and Printmaking Accademia di Belle Arti in Firenze.
February 2017-Photographic Workshop with the Italian photo reporter: Francesco Cito.
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
07-12-2019/ 26-01-2020- Living Image, The Halide Project, Philadelphia PA. The Halide Project’s fourth annual juried showcase of contemporary analog photography.
28-06-2019/07-07-2019-RCA Degree Show, Photography Department, London, 1 HESTER RD, RCA DYSON BUILDING Battersea
4-07-2019-Introiezione/Proiezione, La ricerca del Sé, Studio38,Contemporary Art Gallery, Pistoia, Corso G. Amendola 38E04-
04-2019-REMAINS, Screening night at Tolli's, Kentish town, London.
22-09-2018/29-09-2018 Al femminile, Festival Circostanza #2, Ex-Leopoldine Space, Piazza Tasso, Florence. Festival organized by Galleria Cartavetra and Rivista d'arte Stanza 251.
02-07-2018/ 08-07-2018Cosmos, Family of No Man, Arles. Cosmos Books, Arles Rencontrede la photographie
26-11-2016 / 22-01-2017-Exhibition in Broumov Monastery organized by the Department of Photography of FAMU Academy.
02-2016/ 06-2016-Prague and its beauty, Galleria delCentro Ceco, invia GB Morgagni 20 a Milano, realized by FAMU, Department of photography.
2015/2016 StARTpoint, Florence exhibition organized by the Academia di Belle Arti.
Publications
09-07-2019-Vogue Italia,website (https://www.vogue.it/fotografia/gallery/rca-photography-2019?fbclid=IwAR1pVh2Y4RbPqrCWaVddEp7ss7pUt1tW2AT7NIdt_bNf8A2aIYERfg6EKTY)RCA Photography 2019
05/2019-VogueCS Magazine, assistant photographer of Mojmir Bures, still life photography