Biography
Marika Bertoni, italian/austrian author, is born in Rovereto, studies, reads, grows, paints, travels, writes, pictures, loves.
Hers is a truly felt trail, necessary and still alive: a constant research, in and outside, towards the essential’s expression; a Path that was born with writing and painting, a Path that lands, surprisingly, on Photography and in the processing of the image’s significant.
Touches, skims, caresses, feels, sees and captures many European capitals and metropolis outside Europe, gets to terms with the chaos and, instead of presumptuously trying to fix it or re-order it, tries to capture the little circles that angrily and ferociously outline themselves in it.
She graduates at the Fine Art Academy of Florence (Libera Accademia di Belle Arti), presenting an ambitious project on Identity (and Non-Identity) in photography and life.
Her relationship with photography is a constant challenge, it begins as an interest mainly in its use as artistic language, through the use of the camera and the digital language; then she discovers a useful tool for self study, present in self-portraits projects like Just myself 2009, or Schegge 2009 (Splinters), finally coming to view, in the big power of the image, a communication tool with a strongly social nature, where personal expression and objective world communication try to find their balance, like in the project Unknown ID (In which she investigates the relationship between individual and contemporary metropolitan space) and Blindness (Reflection on the immemorial, the timeless drama of the Shoah).
Currently she lives, dreams, observes, listens, makes projects, thinks, writes and works in Trentino.
(Presentation by Sara Passerini)
