Serena Vittorini (1990, Italy) is a Brussels-based visual artist working across photography, installation, and film. Trained in psychology and photography, she examines how objects and spaces regulate affect and power — how material form prescribes posture, gesture, and proximity, and renders visible the ambiguity between care and control inscribed within them.

Her practice moves through the creation, arrangement, and displacement of objects and dispositifs — testing, photographically and spatially, the pressures they exert on bodies and the bodies they imply. These things carry histories of use; they quietly organize what is permitted near them. What interests her is the threshold where a supportive gesture and a constraining one share the same form — where the object alone holds the tension, and presence is felt through absence.

Grounded in the micropolitics of intimate life and drawing on relational theory, phenomenology, and critical thinking on power, she approaches what we live with not as symbols but as relational agents — sites where social norms and affective economies are absorbed before language intervenes.

 

Education

  • 2016–2017 Master in Advanced Photography — IED, Italy

  • 2013–2016 Degree in Photography — ISFCI, Italy

  • 2009–2012 Psychological Sciences — G. d’Annunzio University, Italy

Selected Solo Shows

  • 2023 Maison d’Art Actuel des Chartreux (MAAC) – Brussels, Belgium

  • 2021 Images Gibellina x Images Vevey – International open-air & site-specific festival – Gibellina, Sicily

  • 2020 Cortona On The Move – Cortona, Italy

  • 2019 Cultuurcentrum Mechelen – Mechelen, Belgium

  • 2019 Festival diecixdieci – Gonzaga Photography Festival – Gonzaga, Italy

  • 2019 SI Fest – Savignano sul Rubicone, Italy

  • 2019 Recyclart – Brussels, Belgium

  • 2018 Baltic Gallery of Contemporary Art – Ustka, Poland

Selected Group Shows

  • 2026 Botanique – Brussels, Belgium

  • 2026 Contretype – Brussels, Belgium

  • 2022 Italian Cultural Institute – Mexico City, Mexico

  • 2018 29 Arts in Progress Gallery – Milan, Italy

  • 2018 Cultuurcentrum Mechelen – Mechelen, Belgium

  • 2018 Magazzini Fotografici – Naples, Italy

  • 2017 Goethe-Institut – Rome, Italy

  • 2017 Center of Jewish Culture – Rome, Italy

  • 2016 MACRO – Museum of Contemporary Art of Rome – Rome, Italy

  • 2016 Italian Cultural Institute – London, United Kingdom

Selected Screenings

  • 2022 BBC Longshots Festival – New York, United States

  • 2022 CWB – Centre Wallonie-Bruxelles – Paris, France

  • 2021 Pink Screens, Cinema Nova – Brussels, Belgium

  • 2020 Giornate degli Autori – 77th Venice International Film Festival – Venice, Italy

Residencies

  • 2026 Fondation Boghossian – Brussels, Belgium

  • 2018 Baltic Gallery of Contemporary Art – Ustka, Poland