Patrizia Genovesi

Patrizia Genovesi, born in 1962, is an Italian photographer, video artist, film director, screenwriter and cultural popularizer. She draws her inspiration from diverse arts as well as from technology. Her production can hardly be classified within any given artistic trend in photography, cinema and video art. It covers a variety of styles and subjects, ranging from black-and-white to over-saturated color and includes portraits, landscapes, architecture, street photography, light painting, backstage, theatre and orchestra shows, and others. Her projects often combine photographs, videos and music. In cinema, she has worked on several shorts as director, screenwriter and director of photography.

Patrizia Genovesi has a scientific education combined with studies of art, drawing and painting from the Italian tradition, musical execution and composition, screenwriting with Mario Monicelli, writing with Domenico Starnone, and theatrical direction with Argentinian Renzo Casali. In photography, she studied with Magnum Photo Agency authors Leonard Freed, Richard Kalvar, Abbās ʿAṭṭār and Moises Samam. In communication and technology, she attended seminars at Gruppo Galgano in Milan, studied analysis and development of information systems with IBM Italy, and has Google certifications for AIQ (Google Analytics Individual Qualification 2020), Data Journalism e Digital Marketing. She is qualified an "Important Photographer" by Google Maps, where her pictures have totaled 42 million visualizations.

- Ex Machina (Rome, 2022) with poet and artist Pipistro: poems, video, photographs and AI-generated images prop questions about the relationship of humans with AI and its potential developments.
- Rome Seen by Aliens (Rome 2021), with artist and poet Pipistro: photographs, videos, poems and music aim at imagining Rome as seen through the eyes of an individual with perceptions, experiences and priorities widely distant from ours.
- Garden Misnake (Rome, 2019): pictures, music and videos show Eve as a symbol not only of women but of the whole human gender, in its path from the desire for knowledge to full awareness.
- Hildegard of Bingen (Rome, 2018): pictures and video interpret inspiring Hildegard, a 12th century German nun, misticist, philosopher, nature scientist, musician, writer, who gained extraordinary authoritativeness in her time's cultural and politic environment.
- Symmetries, Rules and Schemes in the Art of Image (Rome, 2017): pictures were produced basing upon defined mathematic ratios and geometric criteria.
- Giuseppe Verdi's Women (Rome, 2013 and Florence, 2015): focusing on Verdi's female characters, the project is composed of large-size pictures and a set of videos realized as long-shot sequences of artistic perfor...