santiago torresagasti

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1991: born in Buenos Aires (Ar).
2011: studies at the Luchino Visconti Film School in Milan.
2015: graduated in directing, begins his professional career in Bolzano, making documentaries, short films and installations.
2016: first video installation, Agadez, installed at the Museion – Museum of Contemporary Art in Bolzano during the final event of the European project Museum as Toolbox, as part of the XII edition of the Contemporary Art Days promoted by AMACI.
2017: works on Domenico Palma’s documentary Novantatre Miliardi di Albe and becomes assistant to the Italian artist Francesco Arena.
2017: the second video installation work 96°/ -6° (2017) is projected at the Macello space on the occasion of the thirteenth contemporary art day promoted by AMACI.
2018: 96°/ -6° is installed in a public space in Milan (Rimembranze di Lambrate) in collaboration with the Redroom association.
2020: writes and produces three short films: La Scheda, Il Diluvio and Het, the screenplay of Het is rewarded with a special mention from the jury at the 19/20 edition of the Zavattini Unarchive Award.
2023: Het is selected in competition at the second edition of the Saint Moritz Art Film Festival – SMAFF directed by the curator Stefano Rabolli Pansera.
in the same year he was among the resident artists selected at the CSAV of the Ratti Foundation in Como, the residency was led by visiting professor Hilary LLoyd.
On 23 September 2023 he inaugurates his first solo exhibition entitled zero virgola quattro at the Galleria Massimo Minini. 2024: Winner of the second edition of the Piero Siena Prize curated by Paola Tognon. Two works, Agadez and vermisst (la beffa), will be part of MADRE fondazione Donnaregina of Naples permanent collection. The works will be presented on December 2024 at the museum.

Santiago Torresagasti’s research is linked to the moving image.
The moving image as recording and restitution, whether on paper, on film, or on a digital file, is an artifice created by man, however an element detaches from it which transcends the support and moves autonomously.
An incorporeal and by definition invisible presence, hidden between the frames.
This autonomous appendage is born once the image enters into a relationship with the viewer and, separating, dissolves into the different layers of this relationship: space, consciousness, duration and sensations.

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