francesca galliani
Francesca Galliani is a visual artist, born in Italy, based in New York City. From their beginnings in analogue photography, Galliani has centered manual processes — early on cutting and collaging negatives, manually rendering toners during printing. Galliani has been photographing transgender people since the 1990’s. Their creative formal breadth includes expansive subject matter, from nudes, to portraits of different cities and cultures. More recently, in response to the pandemic, their process shifted to a personal, diaristic practice in their Book series, painting and drawing directly on found art history books, often in Italian, their native language. Manual processes, interventions, or interactions with a previous image continues as some pages are selected, scanned, printed large scale and then painted and drawn on anew. Political slogans emerge alongside a more personal private worldview of alluring desire, and the uncertainties of gender and sexuality in precarious times. Featured alongside such disparate provocative figures as Robert Mapplethorpe, Helmut Newton, Marina Abramovic, Galliani has exhibited extensively internationally in biennials, galleries, museums.
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Website: francescagalliani.com
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The Eagle, Gelatin silver prints manually toned
7, Gelatin silver prints manually toned
20Sharee, Gelatin silver prints manually toned
Nudi 94, Mixed media
trans06, Mixed media
1b, Mixed media
8b, Mixed media