Italian artist Rossella Biscotti uses montage as a gesture to reveal individual narratives and their relation to society. In her cross-media practice, cutting across filmmaking, performance and sculpture, she explores and reconstructs social and political moments from recent times through the subjectivity and experiences of individuals, against the backdrop of a larger institutional system. Her most recent and long-term project The Journey, started in 2016, connects scientific research, oceanography and environmental data using a marble block from the Carrara quarry in Italy, which is dropped into the Mediterranean sea. Biscotti has taken part in major international exhibitions, including the 55th Venice Biennale and 13th Istanbul Biennale, dOCUMENTA 13, and Manifesta 9. She is represented by mor charpentier.

Valérie Cabanes is a lawyer in international law, specialised in international humanitarian law and human rights law. In 2013, she participated in the launch of a European citizens’ initiative proposing a European directive on the crime of ecocide, and later worked on a proposal for amendments to the Statute of the International Criminal Court on the crime of ecocide. Ahead of COP21, she founded with a group of lawyers the NGO Notre Affaire à Tous (Our shared responsibility) which works for climate justice in France. She also co-organized the International Tribunal on the rights of nature which took place in Paris in December 2015. Valérie Cabanes is a member of the scientific committee of the journal La pensée écologique (The ecological thinking) and that of the Zoein Foundation, newly founded in Geneva, which support projects reducing inequalities and promoting ecological and social sustainability. She is the author of Rights for the Earth (Natraj publishers, 2018).

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📷 Clara and Other Specimens - Exhibition view, Fondazione Ratti, Como, 2019 © DR. Courtesy Rossella Biscotti

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