Biography
Ornella Orlandini was born in Italy (Turin) in 1980. She lives and works between Turin and Berlin. She has a BA in Education from the University of Turin and an MA in Photography from the European Institut of Design in Turin. Between 2005 and 2006 she produced the first two works of her research project: Fra-m-menti (series of part of a distorted body) and Tempo di andare (series of self-timer mode photos in the night time). In 2007 she took part in a collective exhibition at GAM (Gallery of Modern Art of Turin). The works displayed were the final selection of the Bruna Biamino's workshop on the interpretation of city's landscape. In 2008 Ornella published the book Venaria. Città Reale (Edizioni Gruppo Abele) and the next year her photographs were featured in the book Un viaggio alla Venaria Reale (Daniela Piazza Editore). Since 2009 she is devoting herself also to portrait and reportage, working as a free lance photographer for different companies and national magazines. In 2009 she worked for the Don Bosco Foundation in the project Family of Families: 100 portraits of the families connected to the Foundation. Some of these portraits were displayed in 2011 at the Turin Heart exhibition at the Resistance Museum of Turin. In 2011, she participated in a photographic project financed by the Piedmont Region for the celebration of the 150thHere Innovation, was to show the situation of innovation in Italy by taking portraits of 15 start-up companies based in Turin. For the International Book Fair of Turin and in collaboration with the Bookstock Village, from 2011 to 2014 she made four photographic portrait projects, Sms in bottiglia, #tag and In bianco e nero, Ti mando una cartolina produced and exposed during the three Fair editions. In 2012 she restarted working on her personal research about psychological topics (between conscious and unconscious), sociology and memory. Between 2012 and 2013 she made Wasser Projekt, a series of portraits in the water. In 2013 Ornella started a collaboration with the painter/artist Jessica Rimondi. They produced “A Simulacrum of reality – portrait of Katharina” and “What Remains”, two projects realized with painting interventions on pictures, that analyse the topics of memory and remembrance. This two projects have been shown in London at Lisa Norris Gallery.
