[artist profile]
Mariana Ferratto (Rome 1979) is an Italian-Argentinian artsist based in Florence. The essential element of her research is the body as a means through which investigate the issue of personal identity and gender, the relationship with the other, the male-female relationships and stereotypes associated with it. The intimate world investigated by the artist aspires to be the paradigm of values, feelings, and hierarchies that dictate the rules of social life by stressing its contradictory aspects. Through the stereotype Ferratto tries to highlight the ambiguities inherent in it.
Mariana Ferratto has exhibited in many institutional spaces, including at Macro – Museo d’Arte Contemporanea Rome, Centro Cultural Recoleta Buenos Aires, Biennale di Monza, Stadtgalerie Kiel, Museum Biedermann Donaueschingen, Istituto Italo-Latino Americano Rome, Le Monnaie de Paris, Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, MAC Lissone, Galleria Civica d’Arte Contemporanea Termoli, MLAC Museo Laboratorio d’Arte Contemporanea Rome.
[selected works]
Libertà clandestina, Installation view at MAD – Murate Art District, Firenze, 2023
Inciampi, installation view at The Gallery Apart, 2021
Allo specchio, 2015, installation video, loop, 00:01:26, installation view at MACRO Rome, ph. Daniela Pellegrini 
Il capo sono io, 2015, 2 channel HD video, 00:15:36, ed.3 + 1 AP, installation view at Careof DOCVA, Milan 
Facciamo un gioco, 2006, video loop in a picture frame, installation view at Museo Pietro Canonica a Villa Borghese Rome, 2010 
Curriculum vitae, 2015, four channel video, loop, 00:15:36, ed.3 + 1 AP, installation view at The Gallery Apart Rome, ph. Giorgio Benni 
Esperaesperanza, installation view at MLAC Museo Laboratorio di Arte Contemporanea for the exhibition Give me two times. Video d’arte e nuove ricerche, 2006
Tu ed io #3, 2016, found picture printed on photographic paper and fir frame, cm 46x61x1,7 
Il capo sono io, 2015, 2 channel HD video, 00:15:36, ed.3 + 1 AP, video still 
Il capo sono io, 2015, 2 channel HD video, 00:15:36, ed.3 + 1 AP, video still 
Allo specchio, 2015, installation video, loop, 00:01:26, installation view at MACRO Rome, ph. Daniela Pellegrini 
Allo specchio, 2015, installation video, loop, 00:01:26, installation view at MACRO Rome, (portrait of the artist) 
Ciao, 2010-2011, video in loop, 00:04:30, video still 
Ciao, 2010-2011, video in loop, 00:04:30, video still 
Ciao, Studio #2 Gare d’Austerlitz, 2011, photo on aluminium, cm. 80×120, ed. 3 
Lingua Mamma, 2013, (with Sara Basta), 2 videos (Fais Dodò, 03:00 – Apo, video loop), drawings made by children, loudspeakers, video still 
Lingua Mamma, 2013, (with Sara Basta), 2 videos (Fais Dodò, 03:00 – Apo, video loop), drawings made by children, loudspeakers, installation view at The Gallery Apart Rome 
SCALDAMI PROTEGGIMI, 2005, video 00:05:45, installation view at Museo del Sannio Benevento, 2006 
Porto, carboncino e gessi su carta annigoni, 2024 
Tra dentro e fiori #9, 2023, paper cut technique on photographic print, 2023, ph. Eleonora Cerri Pecorella
Libertà clandestina, Installation view at MAD – Murate Art District, Firenze, 2023
