Video works · 2025
Pholisma Sonorae
With Pholisma Sonorae, Matteo Basilé reimagines the contemporary portrait, navigating a liminal space where identity, technology and perception converge. The portrait as augmented vision and symbolic synthesis.
Upcoming exhibition · Paris
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Matteo Basilé · Italian Cultural Institute, Paris
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12 November 2026 – 22 January 2027 · opening 6.30 pm
Curated by Antonio Calbi, Dominique Moulon
Chapters View all
- 2025 Rerum Novarum A rite of passage between matter, body and code. 33
- 2025 Lumen et Ombra Light is the portrait. Shadow, its hidden fate. 10
- 2024 Intermundia Between worlds: Artemisia in Leonardo’s landscapes. 5
- 2022–23 Floramagnifica One feminine DNA, twenty-one generations in a single instant. 19
- 2022 Hybrida Anomalies, never abnormal: a Digital Birth. 18
- 2019 Memento The museum flooded by an imaginary deluge. 27
- 2017 Viaggio al centro della Terra Lava fields, stranded whales, pietàs. 12
- 2016 Pietra Santa Freeing the presences trapped in marble. 17
Films All films
«For thirty years Matteo Basilé has photographed what the world prefers not to look at: saints and madmen, bodies at the border, faces bearing the weight of time.»
«Pores, wrinkles, scars: what commercial photography corrects, Basilé demands.»
Museums and institutions
- Venice Biennale
- MACRO, Rome
- MART, Rovereto
- Triennale Milano
- Guardian Art Center, Beijing
- United Art Museum, Wuhan
- Italian Cultural Institute, Paris
- Certosa di Padula
Galleries
- Galleria Giampaolo Abbondio
- Marcorossi, Milan
- NM>Contemporary, Monaco
Phygital
Every work has two states
All the works are phygital: when a device is brought close, each opens into a second state, invisible to the naked eye, like altarpieces that opened only on feast days.
- Augmented reality
- Framed with a phone, the works open into their second state. Lumen et Ombra Intermundia
- Digital certificate
- Every work is registered in the ARTITUDE archive with a certificate that can be verified online. ARTITUDE
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