MARCH SESSION Pamela Breda

PAMELA BREDA

ARTISTS STATEMENT

My main area of research is focused on cultural visual tropes and traditions.

The contingency of the artistic process and the potential of its multiple outcomes are core

concerns in my work. Using different methods of visual enquiry, from photography to art

books, from video to installation, my practice explores visual cliché, imaginary tropes and

tradition connected with specific cultural/societal context of production and reception

of visual knowledge. Positing itself as a reflection on specific visual topics and styles, my

work takes the form of a subtle and ironic reflection on Western visual system of communication,

on its complex relation with a long-standing tradition of image-related modes of

apprehension and on its multiple layers of meaning.

Most recently I started to focus on problems related to the contemporary loss of visual

points of reference and on the ambiguity of the photographic image, in connection to

Jacques Rancière’s “distribution of the sensible” theory and to Hito Steyerl’s analysis of the

“poor image”.

Being especially interested in practices that question the medium’s specificity, I actively

engage with problems of authorship, mimicry and re-appropriation. Exploring the long

standing visualizing necessity that characterizes our society, I enquiry the reliability of

photographic images, the level of trust and distrust related to them, the quests for wonder

and narrativization that plays an important role in the creation of visual discourse. I am

particularly keen in questioning the ambiguous status of current photographic practices,

trying to understand how such a condition can create new modes of apprehension and

new individual and collective awareness.

CURRICULUM VITAE

Lives and works between Venice and London.

breda.pamela@gmail.com

EDUCATION

2012 MA in Visual Arts, IUAV University, Venice, Italy.

2011 Erasmus student at University of Essex Colchester Institute, United Kingdom.

2008 MA in History of Arts, University Ca’ Foscari, Venice, Italy.

2007 BA Humanities, University Ca’ Foscari, Venice, Italy.

COLLECTIVE EXHIBITIONS

2012 “Lothar Baumgarten Workshop“, Villa Iris, Santander, Spain.

2010 “Il Museo Immaginario”, exhibition for the IUAV workshop of Antoni Muntadas Palazzetto Tito,

Venice, Italy.

2010 “Passaggi Veneziani”, Fondazione Querini Stampalia,

Venice, Italy.

2010 “Aldo Nascimben National Exhibition”, Palazzo Bomben, Treviso, Italy.

FURTHER EXPERIENCE

2010 - 2012 Colin Dutton assistant.

2011 Venice Biennale exhibition assistant - Armenian Pavillion.

2010 nternship at Fast, Photo Archive of Treviso County (Italy).

2010 Assistant at Project OPLA (Meran, Italy), archive of Artists Books.

2007 - Member of Bevilacqua la Masa Foundation Young Artists.

WORKSHOPS AND SEMINARS

2012 Lothar Baumgarten Workshop, Fondation Botin, Santander, Spain.

2011 Winter - Spring specialization course in Visual Images - Theatres and Stage. Shyock Society in

collaboration with Venice Dance Biennal.

2009 Specialization Workshop in Arts at Padua University.

2007 IUAV University, Specialization course in Visual Art, prof. Laura Corti.

2007 Parma University, Seminary lectures - “History of Art: Memory and Images“.

2006 Giorgio Cini Foundation, Seminary lectures - “Art and Literature”