Virginia Ryan

The exhibition includes a vast multisensory "panorama" of projects made in Italy and Africa to since 2000 by Australian artist Virginia Ryan, around the three basic themes of territory, memory and identity. Sound environments, created with the collaboration of American anthropologist and musician Steven Feld, accompany the visual work.
to beginning in 2001, Ryan has made several works investigating the reality of West Africa, interpreted
through her position as a foreigner and an artist. The exhibition deals with topical trans-national issues such as racial issues, ecology and the environment.
Projects executed in West Africa and Italy
"Ryan uses ancient and very modern techniques and languages for an investigation that has recently stopped her attention on the extraordinary and restless reality of West Africa. Thanks to the richness and exuberance of her images and writing, Virginia Ryan, who currently lives and works between Italy and Ghana, has in fact constructed a singular work of reconnaissance on the life, history and nature of the African country."
Achille Bonito Oliva

VirginiaRyanto>, born to Melbourne and raised in Australia and Italy, attended the National School of the Arts to Canberra and the University of Edinburgh. She has also lived in Egypt, Brazil, Scotland and Ex-Yugoslavia. She has been a resident of Italy since 1995, with studio to Trevi in the province of Perugia. She is an artist, writer and art therapist. She has maintained a studio in Italy and one in Accra, Ghana, since 2000. She is founder of the Foundation of Contemporary Art in Ghana, an associate professor at NYU in Ghana and a member of the Pan African Circle of Artists (Lagos, Nigeria). She often returns to Ghana to further research the coastal environment, and continue her 'Castaways' project, begun in 2003.

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