caterina erica shanta - Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa

Caterina Erica Shanta
it’s too close to focus
14’- 2012
Documentary film
And other similar familiar histories
Book, 183 pag. 2013
In my reflection your movement
17’- 2013
Documentary film
NOTES ON DIAGONAL VIEW
Video loop 23’ - 2014
Touch without see, See without touching,
20’ - 2015
Video Loop, Book, 80 pag
DREAMS
24’ - 2015
Documentary film
Awards:
Stonefly Award
Walking with arts
“Another Second Skin”
2014-15
Documentamy - Un posto nel mondo
First prize of the Jury
2012
Atelier:
Bevilacqua La Masa Foundation
Venice - Atelier 2014/2015
it’s too close to focus
14’- 2012; Documentary film
An
autobiographical
tary
film
Shanta’s
narrates
documen-
Caterina
own history, as well
as those of her father and stepfather.
Both
enlisted in the army, they
used to take a lot of photos of
her and of their military missions.
This
Microhistory (as defined by Carlo Ginzburg) about
my family, connected to a
greater History, from the fall
of the Berlin Wall in 1989 to
the Second Gulf War. All photographs showed in the
film come from Caterina Shanta’s family private archive.
is a
And other similar
These
familiar histories
Book, 183 pag. 2013
We
collect
images
one, holding up to categorisa-
that
can
shape our way to recollect our
memories.
Some
of these memo-
ries are so connected to images that perhaps they couldn’t exist
without them. on this ground,
I
tion, to become a failed archive. Starting from this varied
material, - photos realized in
different periods, formats and
subjects - I decided to create
different layers of content and
searched my
entire photographic family archive, looking for images
recognize. images are “orphans”, be-
cause they don’t belong to any-
I didn’t
visualizations of text.
So
the book pages alternate
photos to text fragments
without author, or written by
me, postcards and polaroids.
In my reflection your movement
17’- 2013
Documentary film
A
double biographic story cre-
ated from
Missero’s family
photo archive.
Two
Tu rin during the political riots between ‘67 and ’70. In the background, the war in Vietnam, the
exploitation of FIAT’s labours,
the students Hippie movement.
brothers who lived in
These images are like treasures.
They come from an historical
moment when this kind of picture
was not considered so important
to narrate
History. Why we
need to see and discover them
again?
NOTES ON DIAGONAL VIEW
Video loop 23’ - 2014
I’ve
done a complete photo-map-
ping of the first floor of the
Ca’Rezzonico Museum in Venice.
Main subject of the pictures are
frames, because Ca’Rezzonico is
a Baroque museum. Spaces and
surfaces are designed entirely,
so painture is not at all the
only thing framed. For
this reason the pictures
were edited in long cross fades,
Alpha channel
techinque. They collapse into
one another. A clear distinction between subject and frame doesn’t exist anymore, just as the distinction between architectural elements,
forniture, ceiling and floor,
walls and mirrors of the Museum.
using the
Stonefly Award
Walking with arts
“Another Second Skin”
2014-15
Touch
without see,
See
without
touching
Inside the Stonefly shoes Factory I tried to shoot as closer
as
possible
workers.
a
the
gestures
of
The outcome is itself
gesture, therefore I asked a
photographer to take pictures
of me. In
the image we can see the hu-
man skin and the image itself becomes a sort of pixelated skin.
Video Loop, Photographic book
Bevilacqua La Masa Foundation
Venice - Atelier 2014/2015
SOGNI / DREAMS
24’ - 2015
documentary film
1943-45 Venice
The Second World War in
Venice, between the institutional
Republic of Salò’s film production and bunker for refugees.
The past fascist regime shows
his falling power through
the
images that we collect today:
old archive photographs, memories, architectural ruins.
A story
about
Venice
becomes a
consideration on beauty and it’s
power of manipulation.
It’s a VEry NICE day.
Venice seen by the artists of the
Bevilacqua La Masa Ateliers.
Moleskine, Milan and Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa, Venice,
2015 pp. 140-149
1943-45 Venice
Drawings and annotations
from
interview realized for the doc-
Sogni / Dreams,
Venice during the Second
World War.
umentary film
about
CV - Caterina Erica Shanta
Caterina Erica Shanta,
born on the 23rd april 1986 in Landstuhl (Germany)
email
[email protected]
http://www.bevilacqualamasa.it/shanta
https://vimeo.com/user10325098
Writer on
http://www.verificaincerta.it/
EDUCATION AND RESIDENCIES
2014/2015 Atelier Bevilacqua La Masa Foundation - Venice (VE)
2014 Visual Arts Master degree IUAV, Venice (VE) with honors; mentor Marco Bertozzi
2013 XI MAGIS Gorizia International Film Studies Spring School, Gorizia (GO)
2012 Video Editing WorkShop with Paolo Cottignola, Venice (VE)
Workshop Maybe the Sky is Really green, and we’re just coloblind hold by Johan Grimonprez, Palazzo Grassi (VE).
RAVE residency, workshop with Ivan Moudov, Trivignano Udinese, (UD)
Visual knowledge, painture workshop IUAV, hold by Maria Morganti (VE)
2010 Design and Visual Arts Bachelor Degree IUAV
2005/2006 Media Without Borders / TRSKA-GORA documentary workshop con Zelimir Zilnik, Krsko (SLO)
ExhibitionS
2015 Another Second Skin, solo show for “Walking with art” Stonefly Award, curated by Stefano Coletto and Marco
Tagliafierro, Viafarini (Docva) Fabbrica del Vapore, Milan
Atelier 2014. Mostra di fine residenza, group show curated by Rachele D’Osualdo, Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa,
Galleria di Piazza San Marco, Venice
FLUXBOOKS. From the Sixties to the Future. Artist’s books from the Luigi Bonotto’s Collection, group Show curated by
Stefano Coletto and Angela Vettese, Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa, Palazzetto Tito, Venice
2014 Another Second Skin, group show of the projects presented for “Walking with art” Stonefly Award, curated by Stefano
Coletto and Marco Tagliafierro, Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa, Galleria di Piazza San Marco, Venice
Winner of the prize
ArtNight, group show in collaboration with Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa and Fondazione Musei Civici Veneziani,
Museo Ca’Rezzonico, Venice
2013 Academy Awards Arti Visive all’Università IUAV di Venezia, end course exhibition, autumn 2012, group show curated
by Antoni Muntadas and Alessandra Messali, Viafarini (Docva) Fabbrica del Vapore, Milan
2012 End Course Exhibition IUAV, group show curated by Antoni Muntadas and Alessandra Messali, Fondazione Bevilacqua
La Masa, Palazzetto Tito, Venice
The Responsive Act, end course exhibition IUAV, group show curated by Rene Gabri and Filipa Ramos,
Galleria Metrcubi, Venezia
2011 Open3, group show curated by Camilla Pin and Valeria Mancinelli, Magazzini del SALE, Venice
2008 End Course Exhibition IUAV, group show curated by Nicholas Bourriaud, Magazzini del SALE, Venice
Publication
Vv. Aa., It’s a very nice day. Venice seen by the artists of the Bevilacqua La Masa Atelier; Moleskine, Milan and Fondazione
Bevilacqua La Masa, Venice, 2015
pp. 140-149
Film Festival
In my Reflection your Movement; 17’- 2013
Documentary film
2014 Circolo di San Salvario, Torino (TO)
2013 Documentamy, Varese (VA)
Parma video film festival, Parma (PR)
Affinità libertarie, Udine (UD)
Euganea film festival, Este (PD)
it’s too close to focus; 14’- 2012
Documentary film
2014 École des medias dell’università del Québec a Montréal (UQAM)
Stillframe Bevilacqua la Masa, film from the foundation’s Archive (VE)
2013 Cafoscari international Short film festival, Venezia (VE)
2012 First Jury Prize, Documentamy “Un posto nel mondo”, Varese (VA).
Venight 2012, Tolentini, Venezia (VE)
Euganea film festival, Villa vescovi, Torreglia (PD)
Bevilacqua la masa, Fine Corsa Mostra IUAV, Venezia (VE)
2014 / 2015