Irene Fenara

Irene Fenara, born in 1990, is an Italian artist whose research centers around the practice of observation and ways of seeing images. She examines linguistic devices and employs various optical and electronic instruments, from Polaroid cameras to surveillance cameras, often using them in unconventional ways and pushing them beyond their intended purpose. Through this, she seeks to use them as instruments for observing the world and finding poetic meaning in it. The act of vision is a central element in her work, and her latest research on optical devices, which are often used for surveillance and control, draws attention to the reversible dynamic between the observer and the observed.

Fenara's work has been exhibited in galleries and public institutions such as Fondazione Prada Osservatorio (2016), Fondazione Fotografia Modena (2017), P420 (2017), MAMbo - Museo d'Arte Moderna di Bologna (2018), Palazzo delle Esposizioni (2018), Fondazione Francesco Fabbri (2018), and Kunst Merano Arte (2019). She was also a finalist in the ING Unseen Talent Award 2019.