Visual artist and writer based in Lisbon
Francesca Faulin is an artist originally from Venice. Her work is primarily about identity and spans across photography, writing and research. Images and words, drawn from both an inner world that represents chaos and external sources, are means to explore the importance and the role of memory in shaping the narrative of our own existence.
Visual and written archive materials like albums, journals and memoirs, become references, starting points to investigate the meaning and paradox of human existence and the insubstantiality of our identity, unraveling a tangle of emotions and memories.
If human life is nothing but a brief moment against the backdrop of an infinite universe, the experience of life itself and the search for meaning through vain attempts to capture and understand the ephemeral nature of our time on Earth, are ways to transcend our own transience. The photographic image itself is a paradox: the result of the tension between persistent memory and proof of absence, Barthes’ death.
Francesca’s work is often brought to a physical form through analogue photography, manipulation of photographic archives both digitally and through alternative photographic processes, and book making.
Awards
Portfolio Review Revela’t
Contemporary Analog Photography Festival 2023
(18 finalsts)
Portfolio Review Emergentes
Encontros da Imagem 2022
(70 finalists)
Exhibitions
Postepisteme
Dissidències, argumentaris i transicions
EMOTIVA festival 2022
Group exhibition
12th November to 11th December 2022
Remapear as Margens
Hipsografia do centro
f/est Amarante
Group Exhibition
27th May to 3rd July 2022
Leave Your Mark
NaEsquina, Lisbon
Group Exhibition
27th May to 6th June 2021
Lisbon On Film
Galeria LerDevagar, Lisbon
Group Exhibition
5th to 20th March 2020
Lisbon On Film
Livraria Ferin, Lisbon
Group Exhibition
14th November to 15th December 2019
Press
‘Postepisteme’: Disidencia e identitades subversivas em primera persona
by Vitor Nieves. Clavoardiendo Photography magazine
Read article (Spanish)
Workshops & Residencies
‘Alternative Dreams’ Alternative photographic processes
/Oficina experimental de processos fotográficos alternativos
Imagerie Casa da Imagens — February to April 2023
Celeuma #2 Residência criativa
TIRA-OLHOS Associação de Fotografia Experimental — November 2022
Handmade light sensitive paper /Papel artesanal fotossensível
TIRA-OLHOS Associação de Fotografia Experimental — June 2022
'By Nature''s Hands' Alternative photographic processes
/Oficina experimental de processos fotográficos alternativos
Imagerie Casa da Imagens — May 2021
Darkroom workshop / Fotografia analogica
Imagerie Casa da Imagens — January 2019 to March 2020
Education
2021 – 2022 Masters of Artistic and Documentary Photography, Lisbon (Portugal)
2019 Darkroom course, Imagerie, Lisbon (Portugal)
2006 – 2009 Bachelor Degree in Communication and Sociology, Universitá degli Studi, Milan (Italy)