Castello di Rivoli is pleased to announce Title Primo, I dreamed, Clara and other stories, the first institutional anthological exhibition by Rossella Biscotti (Molfetta, 1978), an Italian artist based in Holland and Belgium. A leading exponent of a generation of Italian artists who dedicated themselves to the history of our country, bringing to light stratified and unresolved issues, Biscotti made research and analysis aimed at asking questions of collective interest the center of his work. If at the beginning of her career Biscotti focused on the structural amnesia that marks recent history, her latest works look at resources, the process and circulation of raw materials and how the politics of nature, the economy and gender they intersect in complex narratives. Biscotti combines research with the powerful action of sculptural forms and vibrant matter to create works with suggestive power and forensic precision.

Biscotti's works are often the result of collaborations with other disciplines including archaeology, anthropology, geopolitics and environmental sciences. Using a vast range of languages including installation, sculpture, performance, sound and film, they are based on the relationship with history understood as an ecosystem of active relationships. His works are the subject of long periods of investigation and study aimed at revealing the complex structures of power that condition the unresolved dimensions of our present.

In the rooms on the third floor of the Savoy Residence there is a group of works that illustrate the research processes conducted by the artist in his twenty-year career around themes and subjects such as the boundaries between the private and public dimensions; the relationship between the past and the present, between the monument and the document. The works on display show how, since the beginning, Biscotti has based his practice on the strength of gesture and word, on the process of unveiling and excavation, through a multivocal language in which the use of sound is predominant. The exhibition layout outlines a polyphonic narrative composed of minor stories and investigations into ecological, political and gender themes, highlighting the analogies and motivations that animate different uses of the specular extraction and archiving techniques.