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Biography
MARINA BALLO CHARMET
Marina Ballo Charmet (Milan, 1952) expresses herself through photography and video, tools for exploration strongly connoted by philosophy and psychology, fields of thought tied to her university education.
The description of indefinite subjects analysed without information about space and time dwells on elements and details tied to everyday life that take on a conceptual connotation when removed from the usual dimension.
Her early cycles are strictly photographic works: Il limite (1989-90) describes images of beaches, countryside and marshes immersed in a rarefied dimension, whereas Con la coda dell’occhio (1993-97) is dedicated to the city landscape. In Rumore di fondo (1995-97), the title preludes the future introduction of sonorous elements that will lead the artist to experiment with the video language. Her 1998 installation Conversazione presented 5 monitors reproducing parts of the body involved in the transformation of our expressions, almost fragments of an inaudible conversation. The exploration of circumscribed zones of the body led to a photographic study in Primo Campo (2001-03). It identified with the perception of a newborn child, whose field of vision concentrates on the limited area between the breast and mouth of the mother.
She has had numerous one-man shows and collective exhibits in galleries and institutions of European prominence: Photographic Museum of Finland, Helsinki (1994), Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa, Venice (1996), Palazzo della Triennale, Milan; XLVII Biennale d’arte di Venezia, Venice (1997), Galleria Giņ Marconi, Milan (1998), Biennale Internazionale di Fotografia, Palazzo Bricherasio, Turin; Centre National de la Photographie, Paris (1999), Galleria G7, Bologna; Galleria Martano, Turin (2000), Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence (2001), Padiglione d’arte contemporanea, Milan (2002), Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin (2003), Museo di fotografia contemporanea, Cinisello Balsamo (2004 and 2006), Galleria Alessandro De March, Milan (2005); Fotomuseum Winterthur, Winterthur (2005); Jarach Gallery, Venice (2006).
