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In 2023, the ADI Design Museum in Milan commissioned Benedetta Casagrande to create an homage to Italian writer and design historian Anty Pansera. Experimenting in the studio and in the darkroom with the raw materials of writing and of design – paper and sign – Casagrande produced series “Paperworks” in which a limited set of paper cut outs is recombined and reconfigured in each frame. The signs of language (full stops, commas, semicolons, the letter “A”) and silhouettes of the artist’s body meet, interact and play out onto the photographic surface.

Benedetta Casagrande (Milan, 1993) is an artist, writer, curator, and educator working with photography. Her practice unfolds through what Carolyn F. Strauss has termed slow research: slowness as a principle of observation and constant repositioning, an attempt to situate human experience within wider webs of relations, time, and space. Her first photobook, All Things Laid Dormant (Skinnerboox, 2024), was shortlisted for both the Arles Authors Book Award and the Singapore International Photography Festival Book Award. Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally, and in 2024 she received the Luigi Ghirri Prize.

Limited to 500 numbered copies, each copy of the book includes a 5x7 inch original print that has been signed by the artist.