Rossella Biscotti (born 1978, Molfetta. Lives and works between Rotterdam and Brussels) creates installations, sculptures, performances, sound works, and films that explore the intersections between the personal and the political, the past and the present, minor histories and official narratives, documents and memory, politics and ecology. Her works emerge from extended periods of research, shaped by personal encounters, interdisciplinary collaborations, and a sensitive engagement with specific sites and histories. Biscotti often works across fields such as archaeology, anthropology, geopolitics, and environmental science, creating projects that reflect a layered, investigative approach to contemporary and historical realities.
Born from the artist’s extensive retrospective at the Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, this monograph offers a comprehensive overview of Biscotti’s practice. It features an essay by exhibition curator and editor Marianna Vecellio, and contributions by Övül Ö. Durmusoĝlu, Daniel Blanga Gubbay, Philippe Pirotte, and Vera Mey.
In addition to a complete exhibition history and detailed entries on the works presented in the project, the publication includes an anthology of key texts and interviews that trace the evolution of Biscotti’s artistic trajectory. Contributors include Marco Altavilta, Elena Biserna, Lorenzo Bruni, Barbara Casavecchia, Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, T. J. Demos, Tarek Elhaik, Elena Filipovic, Rike Frank, Jelena Giblin, Gijs van Der Ham, Joana Hurtado Matheu, Adam Kleinman, Maxine Kopsa, Chus Martínez, Jelena Martinovicé, Cuauhtémoc Medina, Sean O’Toole, Mary Pelletier, Cesare Pietroiusti, Bartolomeo Pietromarchi, Alessandro Rabottini, Tania Roy, Melanie Roumiguière da Silva, Valentina Sansone, Eva Scharrer, Dirk Snauwaert and Roberta Tenconi.