Selected Publications
Exhibition catalogues, articles and interviews about my work + my published writing and visual essays.
10 Pie Recipes to Try This Fall
book
"L'Ascaro - Una Storia Anticoloniale"
Ghebreyesus Hailu, 2023
Tamu Edizioni.
Italian translation from the original novel written in Tigrinya in 1927. Translation by Uoldelul Chelati Dirar (commissioned as part of my project Unruly Connections).
Preface by Maaza Mengiste.
Postface by Alessandra Ferrini.
10 Pie Recipes to Try This Fall
article
10 Pie Recipes to Try This Fall
catalogue
Exhibition catalogue from the Maxxi Bvlgari Prize 2022 exhibition. With contributions on my work by:
Giulia Ferracci, Simone Frangi, Hou Hanru,
Dirk Snauwaert.
In Italian and English.
10 Pie Recipes to Try This Fall
contribution
Contribution published in Zineb Sedira's "Dreams Have No Titles" curated by Yasmina Reggad, Sam Bardouil and Till Fellrath.
The publication charts the artistic journey of Zineb Sedira, culminating in her presentation for the French Pavilion at the 59th International Art Exhibition, La Biennale di Venezia 2022. .
Documentation of my work "A Bomb to be Reloaded" was included in the third issue dedicated to Venice.
In English and French
A Pasta Hack That Will Transport You to Rome
my writing
Book chapter: "Italy, Libya and the EU: co-dependent systems and interweaving imperial interests at the Mediterranean border" published in "The entangled legacies of empire: Race, finance and inequality".
Edited by Paul Gilbert, Clea Bourne, Max Haiven and Johnna Montgomerie. Manchester University Press, 2023.
10 Pie Recipes to Try This Fall
my writing
This book charts the two-year long project "Everything Passes Except the Past" curated by Jana Haeckel for teh Goethe Institut Brussels.
The publication include documentation material from the exhibition that took place at Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, where I exhibited "Sight Unseen" and the brief text "White Tinted Glasses: on the ‘difficult’ heritage of Italian colonialism" which was first published by the Journal of Visual CUuture and the Harun Farocki Institut.
Creative Salad Ideas for the Veggie Lover
my writing
This printed and online publication is a repository of the short articles firstly published on the Harun Farocki Institut's platform - in collaboration with the Journal of Visual Culture.
My contribution, "White Tinted Glass: on the ‘difficult’ heritage of Italian colonialism" commented on the online press-conference that announced the re-opening of the former colonial museum in Rome.
10 Pie Recipes to Try This Fall
interview + my writing
"Coloniality and Visual Culture in Italy: critical paths between artistic research, theoretical practices and pedagogic experimentations" - edited by Lucrezia Cippitelli and Simone Frangi.
Including:
"Resistant Archives, positionality and research-as-pedagogy: an interview to Alessandra Ferrini" by Guglielmo Zalukar;
"A Bomb to be Reloaded: anti-colonial militancy in Italy between past and present. Research, pedagogy and network building." by Alessandra Ferrini;
Published by Mimesis in 2021.
In Italian only.
A Pasta Hack That Will Transport You to Rome
interview
"Rue d'Alger: art, memory, public space". Edited by Pierre Sintès.
This book is a follow up from the exhibition catalogue of the Rue d'Alger exhibition (Marseille, 2020). It includes an interview by Alessandro Gallicchio. titled:
"Contemporary art and the fascist colonial heritage"
In French only.
Creative Salad Ideas for the Veggie Lover
catalogue
Catalogue of the exhibition Rue d'Alger at Italian Cultural Institute in Marseille. Part of Manifesta 13 Paralléles du Sud, 2020.
Curated by Alessandro Gallicchio.
In French only.
Creative Salad Ideas for the Veggie Lover
visual essay
"Vital Space" is a visual essay published on the online platform Ex-Nunc as part of the Journal on Black Mediterranean. It traces the evolution of the concept of Eurafrica, a term coined by Italian anthropologist Giuseppe Sergi and then employed to drive Italian colonial expansion during the Fascist regime. Simultaneously, despite disappearing from its origin-narrative, it was at the core of European imperial and neo-imperial politics, which led to the foundation of the European Union and its current politics of surveillance and domination within the Mediterranean region.
This contribution stems out of a conversation with Chiara Cartuccia, Ex-Nunc's director.
Creative Salad Ideas for the Veggie Lover
my writing
"Italian Fascism through the prism of contemporary art: reinterpretations, reassembly, deconstruction."
Edited by Luca Acquarelli, Laura Iamurri and Francesco Zucconi.
Published by Rennes University Press, 2021.
In French only.
Creative Salad Ideas for the Veggie Lover
my writing
Creative Salad Ideas for the Veggie Lover
my writing
This Roundtable on Visuality, Race and Nationhood in Italy brings together scholars from the arts, humanities and social sciences to discuss historical constructions of Italian whiteness and national identity in relation to the current xenophobic discourse on race and migration, stressing their rootedness in as yet unchallenged modern notions of scientific racism.
Published on the Journal of Visual Culture, 2019.
Creative Salad Ideas for the Veggie Lover
catalogue
Exhibition catalogue / reader from the exhibition COMING SOON at Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, 2018. Curated by Mira Asriningtyas, Nora Heidorn and Kari Rittenbach.
Edited by Kari Rittenbach and published by Nero.
With texts by Mira Asriningtyas, Lucrezia Calabrò Visconti, Lisetta Carmi, Sonja Dahl, Ida Danewid, Giorgio De Maria, Claire Fontaine, Simone Forti, Nora Heidorn, Kari Rittenbach, Patrizia Sandretto Re Rebaudengo.