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As an afropean artist, my practice engages with cultural and intellectual diversity and investigates the global systems that shape perception, memory, and belonging. In an era defined by technological acceleration, data, and mobility, I explore how these dynamics influence the way knowledge and experience are constructed and circulated.
My work operates between science, photography, and imagination. By combining chemical, physical, and digital processes, I remove everyday objects and scenes from their usual contexts to generate new visual configurations. Through this transformation, the familiar becomes unfamiliar, creating a space where visibility and invisibility, remembrance and disappearance intersect.
At the core of my practice is an inquiry into collective memory and the structures of power that decide which histories are remembered and which are neglected. The archive, for me, is both wound and mirror: a place where the image becomes evidence of erasure. Through the reassembly of fragments, materials, and images, I construct narratives that reflect on memory, ecological and economic interdependencies, and the instability of perception in a globalized world.
My artistic approach is guided by the belief that making fractures, transitions, and uncertainties visible can be an act of resistance and a way to imagine new forms of responsibility and connection within contemporary society.
My work operates between science, photography, and imagination. By combining chemical, physical, and digital processes, I remove everyday objects and scenes from their usual contexts to generate new visual configurations. Through this transformation, the familiar becomes unfamiliar, creating a space where visibility and invisibility, remembrance and disappearance intersect.
At the core of my practice is an inquiry into collective memory and the structures of power that decide which histories are remembered and which are neglected. The archive, for me, is both wound and mirror: a place where the image becomes evidence of erasure. Through the reassembly of fragments, materials, and images, I construct narratives that reflect on memory, ecological and economic interdependencies, and the instability of perception in a globalized world.
My artistic approach is guided by the belief that making fractures, transitions, and uncertainties visible can be an act of resistance and a way to imagine new forms of responsibility and connection within contemporary society.
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Verdiana Albano (*1993) is a multidisciplinary artist and researcher whose work explores fragmented memory connected to socio-ecological entanglements. Through photography and installation, her practice engages with the instability of memory and imagination to examine worlds shaped by displacement and structures of power. By rethinking imagery, Albano constructs visual narratives that negotiate global interdependencies and economic inequality.
Her work has been recognized by PhMuseum, the ISO 5000 Prize, FUTURES Photography, and several grants from Stiftung Kunstfonds. Albano’s work has been exhibited internationally, including at Les Rencontres de la Photographie d’Arles.
Albano studied Fine Arts at HfG Offenbach (Germany), the Sichuan Fine Arts Institute in Chongqing (China), and Ostkreuz School in Berlin (Germany). She is currently a candidate in the binational artistic PhD program at HfK Bremen (Germany) and the Michaelis School of Fine Art (South Africa). In 2023, she founded an Afrodiasporic and Afropean network for emerging artist Institute Contemporary, supported by the Allianz Foundation Fellowship 2023/2024. Albano lives and works in Frankfurt and Berlin.
Her work has been recognized by PhMuseum, the ISO 5000 Prize, FUTURES Photography, and several grants from Stiftung Kunstfonds. Albano’s work has been exhibited internationally, including at Les Rencontres de la Photographie d’Arles.
Albano studied Fine Arts at HfG Offenbach (Germany), the Sichuan Fine Arts Institute in Chongqing (China), and Ostkreuz School in Berlin (Germany). She is currently a candidate in the binational artistic PhD program at HfK Bremen (Germany) and the Michaelis School of Fine Art (South Africa). In 2023, she founded an Afrodiasporic and Afropean network for emerging artist Institute Contemporary, supported by the Allianz Foundation Fellowship 2023/2024. Albano lives and works in Frankfurt and Berlin.