Emma
Scarafiotti

Emma Scarafiotti (b. 1996) is an Italian multidisciplinary artist whose practice spans film, sound, photography, and performance. She studied Design for Art Direction at the London College of Communication and later earned a Master’s degree in New Technologies for the Visual Arts in Milan.

Her work unfolds across multiple media, each functioning as a distinct manifestation of an ongoing line of inquiry, allowing a shared conceptual core to assume new forms and interpretations. Her attention is primarily directed toward stories that exist at the margins; accordingly, the protagonists of her works are often outsiders, non-conforming subjectivities, or hybrid beings inhabiting liminal spaces and transitional territories. Her research engages with issues surrounding queer identities, feminist theory, and gender politics, examining the social and cultural mechanisms through which subjectivities are constructed and processes of exclusion and marginalization are produced.

The body frequently serves as the point of departure for her practice, understood as a site where identity, power, and transformation are continuously negotiated, and through which the boundaries between the human and the more-than-human can be challenged. Combining documentary methodologies, scientific research, and speculative storytelling, she creates works that intertwine analogue techniques with emerging technologies.

Her work has been exhibited at institutions and events including Fondazione VAF, Careof Milano, Fondazione Recontemporary (Turin), Arte Fiera Bologna, Biennale Olimpia Langhe, as well as numerous international venues across Europe, the United States, China, South Korea, and South Africa. Her films have been selected for national and international festivals dedicated to experimental cinema and video art, including the Aesthetica Film Festival, Cinedans Amsterdam, the Video Art and Experimental Film Festival in New York, Thunderdance Film Festival, and PANORAMICA.