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Beatrice Pediconi is an Italian-born multimedia artist whose practice locates itself within a discourse around drawing, photography, painting and video.
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Utilizing water as the primary means to create subtle and floating imagery, her work investigates the fleeting, precarious and vulnerable condition of transience. Pediconi's approach of altering methods and using materials by changing their original functions explores the possibilities for experimentation. In doing so she presents us with a work whose composition reveals a more complex structure upon inspection.
Her latest body of work involves lifting and transferring diaphanous filaments of emulsion from Polaroids to free float them on canvas that has previously been painted using pigments of various hues. They represent ghostly testaments of loss and regeneration. Minimal and organic, many appear to be flowers, reflecting the fragility of all life, its inevitable progression towards renewal and its message of hope in times fraught with destruction.
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Beatrice Pediconi lives and works in Queens, New York.
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In 1995, Pediconi was awarded an Erasmus Scholarship to the National School of Architecture-La Villette in Paris, where she studied painting and art history. Pediconi earned a Bachelor’s degree in Art and Architecture from La Sapienza University, Rome in 1999.
In 2008, she was invited to participate in the VII Biennial of Experimental Art, Saint Petersburg, Russia. She was also a recipient of the 2015 Videoinsight® prize for Italian artists.
Her work has been shown internationally in exhibitions including Presenze, La Galleria Nazionale di Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Roma (2023), Cinema Ephemera, Central Brooklyn Public Library, NY, (2020); NUCLEUS/Imagining Science, Noorderlicht International Photography Festival, Groningen, The Netherlands (2017); The Other View: Italian Women 1965-2015, La Triennale di Milano, Italy (2016-17); Sequences VII, Real Time Art Festival, Reykjavik, Iceland (2015); Ensembles, La Photographie, Quand La Maison Européenne de la Photographie Collectionne, Les Rencontres d’Arles, France (2015); The Polaroid Years: Instant Photography and Experimentation, The Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, New York (2013); The Edge of Vision: Abstraction in Contemporary Photography, Schneider Museum of Art, Ashland, Oregon (2012).
Pediconi’s work has been acquired by numerous public and private institutions, such as La Maison Européenne de la Photographie, Paris; Macro Museum of Contemporary Art, Rome; La Galleria Nazionale di Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Rome; and Collezione Maramotti, Reggio Emilia, Italy, among others. Her work has been published and reviewed in international magazines, including Il Giornale dell’Arte; Artforum; Harper’s Magazine; Art in America; and Photograph Magazine.
Pediconi has completed residencies at the Djerassi Resident Artists Program (Woodside, California) (2019); Yaddo (Saratoga Springs, New York) (2018); and the Lucid Art Residency Program (Inverness, California) (2010).
Her monographs include Presenze (Manfredi Edizioni, Imola 2023); RED (De Luca Editori D’Arte, Rome, 2011); No Trace (Contrasto, Rome, 2011); 9’/ Unlimited, Collezione Maramotti (2014); and Beatrice Pediconi: Something Alien (Danilo Montanari Editore, 2016).
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