Biographie
Bianca Salvo (born in 1986) is an Italian artist living and working in Bogotá. She was awarded with an MA in Photography in 2012 from the London College of Communication and previous to that, in 2010 she gained a BA in Visual Art & Photography from the Istituto Europeo di Design in Milan. She has been lecturer in Creative Research in Photography at the Istituto Europeo di Design in Milan and now she is currently professor in photography at the Universidad de Los Andes in Bogotá.
Présentation
The result of a two-year research on space imagery, The Universe Makers is an enquiry into the patterns and models of representation on which our pop-culture psyche is based, and which profoundly influence our attitudes toward science and outer space. Bianca Salvo explores the role photography, technology, science fiction and other media have played in producing evidence that continue to address our collective imagery towards beliefs, fake conceptions and constructed scenarios.
On one hand, documents and visual records collected over the past years from Institutions and Research Centres have had a fundamental role in providing us with vivid depictions of the remote universe and realistic proofs of space exploration’s feasibility. On the other hand, science fiction massively contributed, in setting up our idea of an outward infinite galaxy, waiting for us to be explored, studied and colonized, suggesting situations in between the bizarre and the truth.
Using these assumptions as a starting point, I have collected documents and images questioning their informative function, besides, according to my practice, I have begun a process of intervention of these records with the aim to challenge their authenticity. I have established a parallel dialogue between ultimate proofs and fake results transforming factual evidences into unrealistic scenarios.
The project, conceived under the form of a multi-layered installation, comprises texts, a video, archival images, still photographs and a photo-book and it points to explore abstractions of the collective unconscious related to our perception of the outward space.