artist
Rosa Catalano
Rosa Catalano
Rosa Catalano
Art is a way of connecting with the material and the immaterial. Her interest focuses on the social conditions of marginalisation and on the relationships between the human world and the natural environment. By making small gestures that resonate with others and the surrounding space, she intends to share sensory and perceptual experiences across different languages: installations, site-specific works, drawings, photographs and videos, performative acts.
She sees art as a means of individual and collective transformation. From the experience as a teacher — a role she has held since 2015 — she has drawn inspiration for a pedagogical approach. This methodology resonates with the thinking of many activists, especially women, for whom education, like art, is a practice of freedom and care, a collective and transformative process deeply rooted in community engagement.
bio
Born in a small town on the outskirts of Naples, she studied painting at the Fine Art Academy of Naples and specialised in Art and Photography at the Polytechnic University of Valencia. In Spain, she worked for a photo agency archive based in Madrid. From 2011 to 2014 she collaborated with Extralab at the Fine Art Academy of Naples. Within this context, Orgh..! Project was born: an open platform for artistic experimentation and social participation in the run-down outlying areas of Naples. Through the act of walking as an aesthetic practice, the project aimed to provide a creative and therapeutic response to the environmental and social crises affecting the local area.