Giovanni Scotti (Naples, 1978).
He graduated in Painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Naples and he attended the Master in Photography & Visual Design at NABA in Milan.
He works with different media including photography, installation, performance and video.
Among the investigations he carries out there’s the one on the public good to be requalified and on the "counter space", as an unconventional space where the dialectic between citizens and territory acquires new meanings. In 2018 he took part to the Triennale #6 Photographie et Architecture in Belgium and was selected among the authors of the first Open Call of the Getxo International Image Festival in Spain. In 2019 he exhibited, for the first time, the photographic series dedicated to the former NATO base in Bagnoli, a public good to be returned to the citizens, with the exhibition Cinnamon Heart: Peepshow at the aA29 Project Room gallery in Caserta. The same project was presented at New York University, during the urban sustainability conference EDRA50 Brooklyn (2019). Starting from the photographs of the former NATO base in Bagnoli, the artist founded Innobiliare Sud Ovest, a fictitious real estate agency that puts up for sale common goods that would already belong to the citizens. An office of the agency was opened at Edenlandia Leisure Park (Naples), halfway between reality and fiction (2020). The project received the matronage of the Museum MADRE in Naples.
Since 2014 the artist is an active part of the italian photographic project Presente Infinito.
