Work
Each colour is a
human encounter.
Towards Empathy is a visual research project joining psychology and photography. It asks how the immaterial, empathy, emotion, the interior life of another, can be made tangible through the image, then turns each portrait into a sculptural object grown from salt.
Soul
Openness
Warmth
Duality
Calm
Project images — to be added
Selected Exhibitions
2024Iridescence — Solo, DOMUS Art, Galatina
2023Der Greif Guest Room on Empathy — selected by Damarice Amao & Matthias Pfaller, Munich
2022Iridescence — Performance, with Thea Soti, POUSH, Paris
2022Cabinet de curiosités, LeNeuf Sinibaldi Gallery, Paris
2022Nuances, La Comète bookshop gallery, Paris
2021Towards Empathy — Solo, Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris
About
Alessandra Carosi (b. 1984, Italy) is a visual artist and photographer based between Paris and Milan. Her work joins photography, psychology and matter — colour, salt, textile — to make the invisible life of emotions tangible. She teaches photography at ECV, Paris, and her work is held in the collection of the Bibliothèque nationale de France.
Curriculum Vitae
Awards
2025Finalist & honourable mention, CREA Cantieri del Contemporaneo, Venice, Italy
2025Winner, Insight Foto Festival Open Call, Varese, Italy
2024Finalist, Francesco Fabbri Award for Contemporary Photography, Pieve (TV), Italy
2024Finalist, Premio Fotografia Contemporanea Driving Energy, Terna, Rome, Italy
2024Finalist, Lumínic Festival Open Call, Barcelona, Spain
2023Winner, Der Greif Guest Room on Empathy, selected by Damarice Amao & Matthias Pfaller, Munich, Germany
2022Finalist, Résidence Photo & Sciences, ADAGP & CNRS, Toulouse, France
2022Winner, ItmakES (Italy and Spain Making Together), Italian Embassy, Madrid, Spain
2022Finalist, PICTO LAB / Expérimenter l'image, Cité des arts, Picto Fondation & la Fab, Paris, France
2021Finalist, Prix Photographie & Sciences, ADAGP & CNRS, Toulouse, France
2021Finalist, Festival l'Image Satellite, Prix Caisse d'Épargne, Nice, France
2020Shortlisted, Odesa Photodays Award, projections, Odessa, Ukraine
2019Finalist, Francesco Fabbri Award for Contemporary Photography, Pieve (TV), Italy
2019Finalist, Encontros da Imagem Emergentes Award, Braga, Portugal
2019Finalist & honourable mention, Premio Prina, Milan, Italy
2019Finalist, Prix Maison Blanche, projections, Marseille, France
2019Bourse du Talent, Portrait, coup de cœur — Honourable mention, Paris, France
2019Finalist, Combat Prize, Photography, Livorno, Italy
20181st Prize, San Fedele Award for Visual Arts, Milan, Italy
2018Winner, SiFest OFF Open Call, Savignano (FC), Italy
20183rd Prize, Premio Nocivelli, Photography, Brescia, Italy
2018Shortlisted, Aarhus Photobook Week Dummy Award, Aarhus, Denmark
2018Shortlisted, Kassel Dummy Award, Kassel, Germany
2017Shortlisted, Francesco Fabbri Award for Contemporary Photography, Pieve (TV), Italy
2017Nominee, PhotogrVphy Grant Award, Conceptual category
2017Shortlisted, Lucie Foundation Scholarship, Photo Made category, USA
2017Winner, TU35 Expanded Call, Centro Pecci per l'Arte Contemporanea, Prato, Italy
2016Finalist, Nascimben Photo Award, Treviso, Italy
2016Winner, Byopaper, Arles, France
2015Winner, Bookmachine @ Paris Photo, Paris, France
2013Winner, SiFest OFF Open Call, Savignano (FC), Italy
2013Honourable mention, IPA International Photography Awards, Fine Art / Portrait, USA
Solo Exhibitions
2025Sono acqua, Eglise, Palermo, Italy, curated by Yolenn Farges
2024Iridescence, DOMUS Art, Galatina, Italy
2021Towards Empathy, Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris, France
2020Untitled, Bòlit Art Contemporani, Girona, Spain, curated by Carme Sais
2018Ortaggi & Imballaggi, Marsèll Permanent Paradise, Milan, Italy, curated by Mirko Rizzi & Federica Tattoli
Group Exhibitions
2026Aether Commons, Refracted Cosmologies, Fundacja Stefana Gierowskiego, Warsaw, curated by Azu Nwagbogu
2025Between Land and Sea, Palermo, Italy, curated by Studio Rizoma
2025Living Lab Festival, Valencia, Spain, curated by Elena Posokhova
2025Pelagic Perspectives, Kunsthal Kongegaarden, Korsør, Denmark, curated by Tijana Miskovic & Cila Brosius
2025Insight Foto Festival, Varese, Italy, curated by Chiara Del Sordo
2025CREA Cantieri del Contemporaneo, Giudecca, Venice, Italy, curated by Pier Paolo Scelsi
2024Francesco Fabbri Award for Contemporary Photography, Villa Brandolini, Pieve di Soligo, Italy, curated by Carlo Sala
2024Premio Driving Energy, Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome, Italy, curated by Marco Delogu
2024Lumínic Photography Festival, Barcelona, Spain, curated by Bernat Millet
202417è Festival d'Art Independent Pepe Sales, Centro Cultural La Mercè, Girona, Spain, curated by A. Artigas
2023Grains, Shakirail, Paris, France, curated by Le Carré Rouge
2023Bien à vous, Art-O-Rama, Edition & Design, Marseille, France, curated by More Projects
2023Rhizome Structures, Hamburg Kreativ Gesellschaft, Hamburg, Germany, curated by Jana Rippman
2022Cabinet de curiosités, LeNeuf Sinibaldi Gallery, Paris, France, curated by Ilaria Crosta
2022Nuances, La Comète bookshop gallery, Paris, France, curated by Flaminia Reposi
2022Weave, Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris, France, curated by Timo Herbst
2021No Home Radius, Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris, France, curated by Mona Young-eun Kim
2021The Hermeneutics of Resonances, Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris, France, curated by A. Carosi
2021Riserva Creativa, Associazione Artéco, Cesena, Italy, curated by Anton Roca
2021Festival l'Image Satellite, Nice, France, curated by Orphée Grisvard-Pontieux
2021Festival Transphotographique, Lille, France, curated by Didier de Fays
2021To Exhibit in Case of Emergency, Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris, France, curated by Andy Rankin
2020Latitudini Quotidiane, Museo Civico Eremitani, PhotoOpen Up Festival, Padova, Italy, curated by Carlo Sala
2020Emergentes Award, Casa da Antiga Câmara, Encontros da Imagem Festival, Guimarães, Portugal
2020Odesa Photodays, projections, online, Odessa, Ukraine
2019La Bourse du Talent, BnF, Paris, France, curated by Didier de Fays & Héloïse Conesa
2019Un paese ci vuole, Fondazione Campori, Soliera (MO), Italy, curated by Terraproject collective
2019Francesco Fabbri Award for Contemporary Photography, Villa Brandolini, Pieve di Soligo, Italy, curated by Carlo Sala
2019Prix Maison Blanche, PhotoMarseille, Marseille, France
2019Un racconto fotografico, Triennale di Milano, Milan, Italy, curated by Bambi Lazzati
2019Dali International Photography Exhibition, La Grande France, Dali, China, curated by Didier de Fays
2019Combat Prize, Museo Fattori, Livorno, Italy
2019Sconfinamenti, Percorsi di Reportage in Valle Gesso, Museo Nazionale della Montagna, Turin, Italy, curated by L. Prestria
2019Poetiche a confronto, Spazio Mo.Ca, Brescia, Italy, curated by Maurizio Bernardelli Curuz
2019Sguardi sul futuro, Galleria San Fedele, Milan, Italy, curated by A. Dall'Asta SJ & Massimo Marchetti
2018Aarhus Photobook Week Dummy Award, Aarhus School of Architecture, Aarhus, Denmark
2018Duo exhibition, AIR Residency, ZeroDate Art Foundation, Odate, Akita, Japan, curated by Toku Matsubuchi
2018SiFest OFF Festival, Savignano (FC), Italy, curated by Tomas Maggioli
2018Premio Nocivelli, Chiesa della Disciplina, Verolanuova, Brescia, Italy
2018La città, Fondazione San Fedele, Milan, Italy, curated by Andrea Dall'Asta SJ et al.
2018The Family of No Men, Cosmos, Arles, France, curated by Natasha Christa & Brad Feuerhelm
2018–19Kassel Dummy Award, itinerant exhibition — Germany, France, Ireland, Spain, Croatia, Italy, Japan
2017Francesco Fabbri Award for Contemporary Photography, Villa Brandolini, Pieve di Soligo, Italy, curated by Carlo Sala
2017TU35 Expanded, Centro Pecci per l'Arte Contemporanea, Prato, Italy, curated by Fabio Cavallucci & Elena Magini
2016PhotoVogue, selected by Alessia Glaviano, online
2016Quelli di Franco Fontana, Spazio Tadini, Milan, Italy, curated by Franco Fontana & Mosè Franchi
2016Nascimben Photo Award, Fast, Treviso, Italy
2016Byopaper, Papeteries Étienne, Arles, France
2016F4 Festival, Fondazione Francesco Fabbri, Villa Brandolini, Pieve di Soligo, Italy, curated by C. Sala
2015Bookmachine, One Star Press @ Paris Photo, Paris, France
2015Bookmachine @ Milano, Peep Hole Gallery, Milan, Italy
2013SiFest OFF, Savignano (FC), Italy, curated by Tomas Maggioli
Residency Programs
2026Villa Ndar, Institut français du Sénégal, Saint-Louis, Senegal
2021–25Artist in residence, POUSH, Paris, France
2025SIM Residency, Reykjavík, Iceland
2024Hangar, Lisbon, Portugal
2024DOMUS Artist Residency, Galatina, Italy
2021Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris, France
2020Bòlit Art Contemporani, Girona, Spain
2018Art Zero Date Foundation, Odate, Japan
2018Fondazione Campori, with Terraproject collective, Soliera, Modena, Italy
2018Sconfinamenti project, Alpes Maritimes, Cuneo, Italy
2018Fondazione San Fedele, Milan, Italy
2017Unidee–Illy, Fondazione Pistoletto, Biella, Italy
Education
2016–17MA Photography, IUAV, Venice, Italy
2012–13Professional Photography course, CFP Bauer, Milan, Italy
2006–11MA Industrial Design, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
2008Bilateral exchange, Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Argentina
2007Erasmus, Elisava, Barcelona, Spain
2003–06BA Industrial Design, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Teaching
2025–Lecturer in Photography – International Master's Program, ECV, Paris, France
Publications
2021The Hermeneutics of Resonances, artist book, Paris, 25 copies
2020Untitled, artist book, Girona, 10 copies
2019Bourse du Talent 2019, award catalogue, Delpire Éditeur, Paris, France
2019Premio Francesco Fabbri per le Arti Contemporanee, award catalogue, Fondazione Fabbri, Pieve, Italy
2019Fotografia edizione 2019, Premio Prina, award catalogue, Amici di Piero Chiara, Varese, Italy
2019Premio Combat 2019, X Edition, award catalogue, Sillabe, Livorno, Italy
2018Hiding One's Honne, self-published artist book, Akita, Japan, 6 copies
2018Ruota, self-published artist book, Milan, 10 copies
2018L'Altro Archivio, Edizioni Pulcino Elefante, Osnago, 17 copies
2018Sguardi sul futuro, exhibition catalogue, Àncora, Milan, Italy
2018La città, San Fedele Award, award catalogue, Silvana Editoriale, Milan, Italy
2018Premio Nocivelli 2018, award catalogue, Brescia, Italy
2018Premio Combat 2018, IX Edition, award catalogue, Sillabe, Livorno, Italy
2017Premio Francesco Fabbri per le Arti Contemporanee, award catalogue, Fondazione Fabbri, Pieve, Italy
2016Untitled Emotion, F4 Festival fanzine, Fondazione Fabbri, Pieve di Soligo, 120 copies
2015Break Even, Bookmachine @ Paris Photo & One Star Press, Paris
2015Cioccolatini, artist book, Bookmachine @ Milano & Peep Hole, Milan
Acquisitions
Bibliothèque Nationale de France
Private collections
Work
2016–Visual artist and professional photographer, between Paris and Milan
2018Assistant to Thomas Mailaender, Paris, France
2016–17Assistant to Guido Guidi, Cesena, Italy
2012–16Research fellow and academic tutor, Design Faculty, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Performance
2024Iridescence, a composition for voice, machines and colours, with Thea Soti, DOMUS, Galatina, Italy
2024Correspondances, Nefeli Papadimouli, FRAC Champagne-Ardenne, Reims, France
2023Étoiles Partielles, Nefeli Papadimouli, le Crédac, Ivry, Paris, France
2022Skinscapes, Nefeli Papadimouli, Révélations Emerige, Paris, France
2022Correspondances, Nefeli Papadimouli, SHEDS Pantin, Paris, France
2022Iridescence, with Thea Soti, POUSH, Paris, France
2022Correspondances, Nefeli Papadimouli, Fondation Fiminco, Paris, France
2022Skinscapes, Nefeli Papadimouli, École des Beaux-Arts, Paris, France
2021Milieu Mouvant, Nefeli Papadimouli, Pal Project Gallery, Paris, France
Curatorial Work
2021The Hermeneutics of Resonances, Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris, France, as curator
Contact
For studio visits, exhibition projects, or to receive the full portfolio, you are warmly invited to get in touch.
Atelier
IOTA, Avant Seine — 8 rue Parmentier, Puteaux, Paris
Instagram
@alessandra.carosi