Jessica Iapino

Jessica Iapino born on October 14th 1979 in Rome where she lives and works. Artists whom resume varies in many different mediums, she developes from a sculptural training. Her interests go from video, movies to digital photography. Everything is planned in an installation which represents, in her work, the right connection between the sculptural form and the conceptual value of the environment. The emotional aspect is the adhesive element between the artist and the viewer who is forced to seek the most intimate phantoms of her creative work. In December 2004 she presents her first solo show HERO at the Arturarte Gallery in Rome curated by Paola D’Andrea. Among the many group shows all around the world she participates to the work in progress event Sagome 547, Traforo Umberto I in Rome 2005. She takes part with her first video street-game to many Film & Video Festivals in different countries among which The Berkeley Film & Video Festival 2005, California, USA and wins the Prize “Best of Festival” Arts category / Bayennale 2005, International Arts Festival, Artists Television Access (ATA), San Francisco, California, USA / Imaginaria ’05 Festival Internazionale di Cinema Libero - Chiostro di San Benedetto, Conversano, Bari (Italy). Recently she participates to the goup show “SEVEN” Monkdogz Gallery - New York City (USA) May/June 2006 she is also present at the London Biennale 2006 (In Arcadia). The video street-game was selected to partecipate to the second edition of “Il Festival dei Corti di 25° Ora” and will be broadcast on channel LA7 during the transmission “25° Ora – Il Cinema Espanso” in September. Her second solo show titled EDEN curated by Micol Di Veroli took place al MLAC Laboratori Museum of Contemporary Art of the “La Sapienza” University in Rome. The EDEN video is already winner of the “Grand Festival Award” at The Berkeley Film & Video Festival 2006 where in October it has been projected as World Premier to the United States audience. Among the 2007 shows the third event of S/AGO/ME. 547 took place the Ministero Degli Affari Esteri in Rome on January 18th – in occasion of the presentation of the new catalogue of One hundred years of Italian Art at the Farnesina. In April she participates at “Gemine Muse” Young Artists in European Museums curated by Antonio Arèvalo, organized by the association G.A.I. Giovani Artisti Italiani at the Napoleonic Museum in Rome.