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Vanessa Rusci – Visual Artist, Photographer, Curator, Performer

Vanessa Rusci is an Italian visual artist, photographer, VJ, and performer whose multidisciplinary practice explores visual and sensory perception, memory, and the intersections between art, psychology, and technology. Her works often require public interaction and aim to spark reflection on pressing social issues such as the awareness of life, climate change, war, aging, gender relations, and the fragility of human existence.

An award-winning artist with international recognition, Rusci has exhibited in the United States, France, Germany, Belgium, Italy, and Africa. Her career spans more than two decades and is characterized by a constant evolution of media — from analog and digital photography to video, performance, social media experiments, and AI-generated art.

Her recent research moves between social networks and psychoanalysis, psychodrama and portraiture, artificial intelligence algorithms and the perception of time. Among her most notable projects:

Flowers and Poetry, a series in high demand, exhibited in Italy, New York, California, and Berlin.

ReShoots, digital reinterpretations of old analog photographs, recontextualized with contemporary objects.

Instaphoto Stories, a critical investigation into stardom, narcissism, and the performative nature of social media.

Defragmented, an AI-based artwork presented during Miami Art Basel.

Noi Social 4 Women and Io Sono Puro Amore, projects addressing violence against women, identity, and resilience, combining photography, performance, and symbolic objects.

Rusci’s artistic trajectory embodies both experimentation and social engagement, creating a body of work that resonates visually, conceptually, and emotionally with contemporary audiences and collectors alike.