Irene Pittatore (Turin 1979), visual artist, performer and journalist.
She uses multiple visual, narrative and participatory tools to create works reflecting on marginalisation, discrimination and their symptoms from a feminist and intersectional perspective. Her long terms projects, dealing with gender-based violence (L’amavo troppo e le ho sparato, Monumenta Italia), diversity and inclusion (You as me / Nei panni degli altri), the housing emergency (Homeless heroines), body positivity (Floating portraits) and remote photography (From a distance) develop in collaboration with universities, museums, festivals, galleries, non-profit organisations and in public spaces.
She writes about contemporary art, feminism and gender identity, in an intersectional perspective. From 2015 to 2017 she was the Art Contributor for MW – First Gender Neutral Magazine and Playboy Italia.
For fifteen years, she has also been carrying out projects of documentation and enhancement of heritage, archives and initiatives of public and private institutions.
In residence for The Spur/Creative Europe at the Es Baluard Museu d’Art Modern i Contemporani de Palma, for Resò at Capacete (Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo – BR), in Berlin thanks to the Movin’ Up Award and Archive Books, in Turin (IT) for Viadellafucina Twinning Residency, her projects, performances, interventions have been presented and exhibited at Artissima, Camera – Centro Italiano per la Fotografia, Lovers Film Festival, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Opera Barolo, Polo del ‘900 (Turin – IT), Museo di Fotografia Contemporanea di Cinisello Balsamo, Aspesi (Milan – IT), Cittadellarte Fondazione Pistoletto (Biella – IT), Museo MACRO (Rome – IT), Orizzonti Verticali Festival in the garden of the Galleria Continua in San Gimignano (Siena – IT), ArtVerona (Verona – IT), Museo di Palazzo Grimani (Venice – IT), Arts Santa Mònica (Barcelona – SP), Es Baluard Museum (Palma de Mallorca – SP), Festival OVNI – Objectif Vidèo Nice, Festival In&Out with the participation of Villa Arson (Nice – FR), Festival Jeu de l’Oie (MUCEM and Aix-Marseille Universitè – FR), Biennale des Jeunes Créateurs d’Europe et de la Méditerranée, 12 Bienal de la Habana OFF.
She is co-founder of Impasse, a cultural association which operates for both defending the cultural work (R-set. Tools for cultural workers) and promoting its public and social dimension.
She collaborates with the galleries A Pick Gallery and Opere Scelte (Turin – IT).