Di-sezione

Ilaria Salvagno presents glasses sculpted and engraved with lines that evoke the anatomy of animals, plants and imaginary bodies. The artist decided to abandon the surface view and dive into a deeper approach. Through this creation, she invites observers to adopt an analytical gaze, exploring the interior of the subject or space.

Ilaria Salvagno is a visual artist and performer. Over the years she has worked as a visual artist, anatomical drawing teacher and photographer, and collaborated on numerous performative projects in Italy and abroad. Originally from Venice, she studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Venice, the Haute école des arts du Rhin in Strasbourg, and the Anfibia multidisciplinary training program for performers and contemporary creators in Bologna. In parallel she studied different approaches to movement and theatre: singing, acting, physical theatre, Body-Mind Centering®, contemporary dance, flamenco—across Italy, France, and Spain.

Her work explores the intimate relationship individuals cultivate with their own bodies: its shapes, its pains, its memories. She finds in the term 'anatomy' (ἀνατομή) the character of her gaze and her artistic research. Salvagno works with drawing, photography, writing, and performance. Originally an anatomical illustrator, specialized in art print techniques, she works between the visual art and the performance.
Audience participation plays a central role in her creation process through which she intends to give voice to intimate and often uncomfortable stories and testimonies.
She is currently developing Nudità (Nudity), an ongoing research project sharing over twenty body stories. In 2023, she presented Briciole, a short autobiographical performance drawn from Nudità, at Teatri di Vita in Bologna. She now lives and works in Barcelona, presenting Briciole and engaging in other performative projects and collaborations.