La coscienza luccicante
He takes part in the exhibition From Video Art to Interactive Art at Palazzo delle Esposizioni in Rome. The project combines images, pixels and interactivity in an artist’s CD-ROM.
Source: Palazzo delle Esposizioni ↗Rome, 1969 · Visual artist, photographer, author
Massimo
Scognamiglio
For over thirty years, he has moved across photography, painting, video, performance and writing to explore identity, memory, technology and the psyche.
Profile
A practice between image, body and perception.
Active since the mid-1990s, Massimo Scognamiglio has developed a multidisciplinary practice in which artistic languages are not separate compartments. Photography, painting, video, performance and digital tools become parts of the same inquiry into the human figure and the ways in which we construct identity.
His photographic work began in fashion, but gradually moved beyond it. Portraiture enters into a relationship with landscape, sequence and narrative construction. The subject is not merely a physical presence: it is the place where memory, vulnerability and psychological perception become visible.
In the following years, the relationship between photography and painting became more explicit. The surface is crossed, layered or torn; what appears and what remains hidden coexist within the same image. This continuity also runs through his performances and digital art.
Timeline
Exhibitions, museums, passages.
Videominuto
He is among the Italian artists presented at Centro per l’arte contemporanea Luigi Pecci in Prato, as part of an exploration of video made with webcams and mobile phones.
Source: Nove da Firenze ↗Outer Space
With Massimo Buccilli, he creates Outer Space, now held in the Segni collection of the LÌMEN Art Museum in Vibo Valentia.
Source: Museo d’Arte LÌMEN ↗Terra!
The photographic exhibition grows out of the arrival of approximately 650 migrants in Vibo Valentia and a week spent aboard the rescue ship Aquarius.
Source: Il Quotidiano del Sud ↗Where is the future?
At MACRO Asilo’s Cinema Hall, he presents a short film, photographs and a discussion devoted to migrants and residents of occupied buildings in Cosenza.
Source: MACRO Asilo ↗Exibart Prize
He is selected as one of the five new finalists of the Exibart Prize.
Source: Exibart Prize ↗Because, Perché Sì
He takes part in the group exhibition organised by Dorothy Circus Gallery across its Rome and London venues.
Source: Exibart ↗The Space Between Us
In Rome, he presents an exhibition curated by Uros Gorgone and co-produced with Fondazione Solares delle Arti. The project brings together works developed over approximately ten years.
Source: Fondazione Solares delle Arti ↗Research
The invisible part of the image.
Identity
Portraiture and the figure become tools of inquiry. Appearance does not contain the subject, but reveals fractures, transformations and possibilities.
Psyche
The unconscious, mental health and vulnerability run through a body of work in which photography and painting continually contaminate one another.
Technology
From early computer graphics to digital art, technology is not merely a medium. It is an environment that changes perception, language and memory.
Humanity
Projects devoted to migration connect landscape with the lives that cross it, without separating documentary evidence from poetic construction.
Writing
Words as a continuation of the image.
Scognamiglio’s fiction returns to the same themes as his visual practice: the relationship between humans and technology, memory, the transformation of identity, loss and control. Science fiction, noir and coming-of-age narratives become other ways to observe what an image cannot tell on its own.
Discover the books →Further reading
Sources and conversations
- 01Massimo Scognamiglio, la fotografia e altre storie. Conversazione con l’autoreart a part of cult(ure), 2018 ↗
- 02Other Identity #211, altre forme di identità culturali e pubbliche: Massimo ScognamiglioExibart, 2026 ↗
- 03Massimo Scognamiglio. Strappi e profezieArtribune, 2026 ↗
- 04Dal Mediterraneo un racconto di speranzaIl Quotidiano del Sud, 2018 ↗