Trees on Land, 2021

Rossella Biscotti’s research is deeply rooted in the great events of contemporary history. From her addressing collective traumas come her videos, installations, sculptural works, books and performances that bring to light details overlooked or intentionally removed from the official narratives. Through her scrupulous field investigation, Biscotti brings together archive materials, recordings and testimonies, while seeking out direct contact with the people and places of the events, showing how the past is never over, but how instead it may open up to new interpretations. On the occasions of an artist’s residency in New York at the Italian Academy for Advanced Studies in America, she undertook a long research project that would lead her to produce a publication, two sculptures and the film in the collection: The Undercover Man (2008). [...]