Serena Vittorini (b. 1990, L’Aquila, Italy) is a visual artist based in Brussels. Her research-based practice investigates domestic space as a dispositif of affective governance, where rituals of care, control, and silence structure intimate life. Informed by a background in psychology and photography, she works across installation, moving image, and object-based intervention, adopting a multidisciplinary and iconographic methodology.
Vittorini approaches household objects as repositories of memory and latent violence. Through acts of displacement, deformation, and material transformation, she engages them as archaeological residues, forms that articulate the tension between protection and domination, normativity and dissidence. Her work traces the micro-politics of everyday life, examining how emotional economies are shaped by spatial arrangements, familial scripts, and invisible systems of power.
Operating at the intersection of the symbolic and the material, her practice constructs affective environments that evoke the ambivalence of care, the weight of inherited trauma, and the residues of institutional logics embedded in domesticity.
2026 “SINEQUANON” – Installation, Centrale for Contemporary Art (To come) – Brussels, Belgium
2026 Boghossian Foundation Residency – Brussels, Belgium
2023 “I Built A Wall” – MAAC – Brussels, Belgium
2022 “En ce moment” Short Film, BBC Longshots Festival – New York City, USA
2022 “I Built A Wall” – Installation, Italian Cultural Institute – Mexico City, Mexico
2022 “En ce moment” Short Film, CWB Centre Wallonie Bruxelles – Paris, France
2021 “sinequanon” – Installation, Images Gibellina International Open Air & site-specific festival – Gibellina, Sicily
2021 “En ce moment” Short Film, Pink Screens, Cinema Nova -Brussels, Belgium
2021 “En ce moment” Short Film, Queer Lisboa – Lisbon, Portugal
2021 “En ce moment” Short Film, Iris Prize – Cardiff, UK
2020 “En ce moment” Short Film, Abbecedario del Reale, Macma – Florence, Italy
2020 “En ce moment” Short Film, Filmmaker Festival – Milan, Italy
2020 “En ce moment” Short Film, Language is a Virus, Nuovo Cinema Aquila – Rome, Italy
2020 “En ce moment” Short Film, From Venice to Rome, Cinema Farnese – Rome, Italy
2020 “En ce moment” Short Film, Giornate degli autori 77th edition of the Venice International Film Festival – Venice, Italy
2020 “En ce moment” Short Film, Cortona on the Move – Cortona, Italy
2019 “Dans Mon Souvenir C’était Blanc”, Cultuurcentrum Mechelen – Mechelen, Belgium
2019 “Dans Mon Souvenir C’était Blanc”, Festival diecixdieci – Gonzaga Photography Festival – Gonzaga, Italy
2019 “Dans Mon Souvenir C’était Blanc”, Sifest – Savignano sul Rubicone, Italy
2019 “Tapes You Watch When You Are Alone”, PhotoTWENS 2019 – Leuven, Belgium
2019 “sinequanon”, Recyclart – Bruxelles, Belgium
2019 “sinequanon”, Knust Festival – Bruxelles, Belgium
2018 “RICOSTRUZIONI Architettura, città e paesaggio nell’epoca delle distruzioni”, La Triennale di Milano – Milano, Italy
2018 “sinequanon”, ANCE – L’Aquila, Italy
2018 “sinequanon”, 29 Arts in Progress Gallery – Milan, Italy
2018 “Tapes You Watch When You Are Alone”, Bałtycka Galeria Sztuki Współczesnej – Ustka, Poland
2018 “sinequanon”, Cultuurcentrum Mechelen – Mechelen, Belgium
2018 “sinequanon”, Magazzini Fotografici – Naples, Italy
2017 “Come in cielo, così in terra”, FINI 2017 International Festival De La Imagen – Pachuca, Mexico
2017 “Più Culture – Migranti nel Municipio II”, Goethe Institut – Rome, Italy
2017 “Foo dëkk”, Centre of Jewish Culture – Rome, Italy
2016 “Enlightening Surfaces”, 291 Est Gallery – Rome, Italy
2016 “Foo dëkk”, MACRO Museum of Contemporary Art – Rome, Italy
2016 “Four Seasons”, Italian Cultural Institute – London, UK
2015 “DRD4-7R – Futuro anteriore”, Palazzo delle Esposizioni – Rome, Italy
2015 “LA GRANDE ALLUSIONE : 1974-2015”, MLAC Museum Laboratory of Contemporary Art -Rome, Italy
serenavittorini@gmail.com
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