Samantha
Passaniti

Samantha Passaniti was born in Grosseto in 1981, she lives and works between Monte Argentario and Rome. Graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Rome, in 2015 she attended a postgraduate course at the Slade School of Art in London. In 2018 she is selected by the international organization ReArtiste for a group show at the MC Gallery in New York. She is among the finalists of the Arteam Cup award 2018, 2019 and 2020, also in 2020 she wins an artistic residency focused on the link between art and nature in the Monte Beigua Unesco Heritage Geopark (Savona) and is selected for a residency at the Arteventura contemporary art center in Andalusia, Spain within the Sierra de Aracena Natural Park. In both residencies she realizes site specific environmental installations. Recent solo exhibitions include "Corrispettivo naturale" in 2018, curated by Davide Silvioli at the Art G.A.P. Gallery in Rome, "Rethinking Materials, Rethinking the Place" always curated by Davide Silvioli in 2020 in the historical palace Cozza Caposavi in Bolsena (VT) and "Confidence in the uncertain" curated by Giorgia Basili, at Curva Pura gallery in Rome. Among the numerous group exhibitions in Italy and abroad, it is worth mentioning the participation in June 2020 to the exhibition Athens Open Art at the gallery Art Number 23 in Athens. Her artistic research is focused on the experimentation of natural and recoery materials collected in the environment that become the object of reflection and investigation on the complexity of human relationships and existential experience. Her paintings and installations are the result of a continuous relationship, dialogue and exchange between inside and outside, between the intimate world and the environment, between man and nature, between existential experience and natural cycles, with a particular attention to ancestral symbologies and spiritual archetypes that connect man to the natural world that hosts him since ancient times.