Bonizzi Valentina
Digging into archives and communities, Valentina Bonizzi’s work highlights issues of social justice in relation to the politics of time in specific contexts. She has developed her work and research with communities in Scotland, the region of Molise in Italy, Deheisheh Refugee Camp in Palestine and the city of Kamza in Albania. Valentina works with a variety of media such as film, photography, literature, sound, and actions in public spaces.
Selected exhibition include: Gjon Mili Biennial and Award (2019) Kosova National Art Gallery, Zeta Gallery in Tirana, Autostrada Biennale in Prizren, the National Galleries of Scotland, British School at Rome, Stills Gallery in Edinburgh and Fondazione Fotografia Modena, Cooper Gallery, Dundee, Zeta Gallery in Tirana. She has presented her work in a number of institutions such as MAXXI, Rome, Ramallah Academy of the Arts, Palestine, Akademie der Künste, Berlin, Villa Romana, Florence, CCA in Glasgow, Campus in Camps, Dhiesheh Refugee Camp in Palestine. Bonizzi has published with the Journal for Flusser Studies, What legitimates photography? and the Mauritius Catalogue of the Venice Biennal: When you realised you were a: White. European. Male. She is the editor of: The Art of the Process, Notes to a Deputy, Produced by COD, Prime Minister’s Office in Albania and On Remoteness an online sound magazine, by Mnemoscape.
Bonizzi holds a Master of Research in Visual Practices from Glasgow School of Art and a PhD (AHRC funded) from the University of Dundee (Visual Research Centre). Bonizzi has received awards from Creative Scotland, Arts and Business and the Arts and Humanities Research Council by which she has been nominated for the Best Research in Film Award.