Alessia Rollo is a visual artist born in 1982 in South Italy where she lives and works. After earning her undergraduate degree in visual communication at the University of Perugia (Italy), she completed a master’s in creative photography at the EFTI (Spain) in 2009.

For Rollo, rather than explaining or documenting a situation, photography is a medium that permits myriad metaphors. In her project she always questions photography as tools of representation and deliberately mix a documentary approach with a factionary one. Her projects are focused on Mediterranean area to question which are relevant topics in the main streaming storytelling, found contemporary and past social and visual stereotypes and offer new point of view on this area.

Her projects are often oriented to expand a sense of community through re-appropriation of histories, memories and visual material. Her projects have been displayed in many international exhibitions in solo and group shows.

2021

“An endless day”,Gallery NetPlus, France

2020

“Fata Morgana”: Italian Embassy, Madrid, Spain

2019

“How to build a temple, how to build the true”: Italian culture istitute, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

“The Matter”: Santa Maria de Armenis, Matera, Italy

“The Matter”: Skalad, Plovdiv, Bulgaria

“Dialoghi Italiani”: Galeria Cero, Madrid, Spain

2018

“Fata Morgana”: See beyond the sea, PHest, Monopoli, Italy

“Fata Morgana”: Galleria Space Place, Nigni Tagil, Russia

“Fata Morgana”: Gallery Photograph, Tokyo, Japan

2015

MadPhoto Gallery “We eat what we are” – Madrid, Spain

2013

Teatri Koreja, Rassegna “Senso plurimo”, Lecce Italy

Galleria “MadPhoto” Madrid, Spain

2011

Festival di fotografia internazionale e arti visuali Lleida, Catalugna, Spain

Esposizione, Kikekeller OpenSpace, Madrid, Spain

2010

In-domestico, Galeria OFF, EFTI, Madrid.

In-domestico, UCA, Universidad de Cadiz, Sala Kúrsala, Cadice, Spain

Visio, Goethe Institute, Salvador de Bahia, Brasil

2022

“Parallel Eyes”: Athene Photo Festival, Benaki Museum, Athens, Greece.

2021

“Parallel Eyes” Bitume Fotophest, Museo Castromediano di Lecce, Italy

“Parallel Eyes” Futuro Arcaico, Bari, Italy

“Parallel Eyes” Futuro Arcaico, Tirana, Albania

2020

“Fata Morgana” Mediterrean Fluxus, Naxos, Greece

2019

“Off Land. An ideal place, at least” PHotoEspaña, Centro Cultural Galileo, Madrid, Spain

“Belonging to the story” Museum of Photography of Helsinky, Finland

“Fata Morgana”: Athens Photo Festival, Benaki Museum, Atene, Greece

“Fata Morgana”: Encontro da Imagen, Braga, Portugal

“Fata Morgana”: Verzasca Foto Festival, Swizerlad

2018

Lens Culture Award, London Photo, Uk

PhotoEspaña Real Jardin Botanico, Spain

Arles Cosmos, France

Unseen Amsterdam, Netherland

Addis Fotofest, Addis Abeba, Ethiopia

2017

Mia Artfair, Milano, Italy

Set up Bologna Italy

“Urban layers”,Triennale di Milano, Italy

2016

Bitume Photofest, Malaga (Spain), Thesalonikky (Greece), Lecce (Italy)

Galleria Bluorg “Pieni e vuoti”, Bari Italy

2015

Biennal of Young Mediterrean artist, Fabrica del Vapore, Milan, Italy

Planar Gallery, Bari, Italy

2014

Esposizione “Frida en celo”, Galleria Art nit campos, Campos, Maiorca, Spain

Esposizione “Low art”, Galleria ARTcore Gallery, Bari Italia

2013

Esposizione “Beat 5”, Must museo storico: Lecce, Italy

Esposizione “Double”, Galeria Ars and Art; Galatina, Italy

Si fest off, Savignano sul Rubicone, Italy

2021

“An endless day” Edition de Juillet, France

2019

The MAtter, European Eyes on Japan, Japan

2019

Fata Morgana, Ediciones Anomalas, Spagna 

2020.

Istituto italiano di cultura, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

2019.

European Eyes on Japan, Mashiko, Japan
2019.

Istituto italiano di cultura, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

2013.

Mo.ta, Museum of transitory art., Slovenia
2011.

Default, Masterclass in residency, Lecce, Italy