Federico Campanale (1973, France) is a visual artist based in Amsterdam (NL) where he graduated at the Art academy in 2001. Combining the arts with his previous training in social geography, Federico interrogates (or explores) notions of identity and how...
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Federico
Campanale (1973, France) is a visual artist based in Amsterdam (NL) where he
graduated at the Art academy in 2001. Combining the arts with his previous
training in social geography, Federico interrogates (or explores) notions of
identity and how they relate to space. His works question our relation to the
“other”, and to the “difference”, and challenge the way we perceive our
surroundings and the “human-situation” reciprocal influence.
Campanale has made video art
pieces that stimulate the viewer’s most intimate emotions; documentary films
that give a voice to marginal or media-silenced groups; and in the recent
years, he’s focused on photographing the multi-dimensionality of spaces,
seeking a new way to render space and time (and eventually emotional affinity)
within a 2D medium.
Technically, Campanale often
uses time-manipulation techniques to evoke impressions and realms beyond the
frame of the conventional time experience, producing renderings that surpass
human sight-seeing skills, such as high-speed video and multiple exposure
photography.
Beside his artistic research,
Campanale has worked as filmmaker for Dutch and international TV channels, as
well as for major Dutch museums. The most renowned projects being in the recent
past years for National Geographic and PBS in the United States. His work has
been exhibited worldwide in film festivals and art exhibitions.
