"Fried Barbie" Photograph - Limited Edition of 5

Mirko Credito (Genoa, 1971) is a multidisciplinary artist working across video art, photography, installation and digital research. His practice explores the tension between control and chance, using obsolete and analogue technologies — magnetic tape, scanners, dot matrix printers, dry transfer lettering — to generate images that resist exactness.
Early works include Maschere di patate and the Fritture series, in which everyday objects are fried and scanned at high resolution, transforming the familiar into abstract icons suspended between sculpture and photography. With the Fast Forward Portrait series, Credito used an analogue video camera on 8mm magnetic tape, selecting frames during fast-forward playback — making the distortion of the medium an integral part of the image.
His recent video installations — including Elsa and Déjà Vu - Tempo Intermittente — develop a hybrid process in which individual frames from Super 8 and 16mm archival films are scanned, printed on paper, and reworked by hand through painterly gestures, drawing and Letraset dry transfer lettering. Each sheet is then re-scanned and recomposed into video, presented on monitors of varying formats — 16:9, 4:3, 21:9, 9:16. The original soundtracks are composed by Modvs, a Genoese electronic musician working at the intersection of techno, psychedelia and chance.
He has exhibited internationally, including at Art Sablon (Brussels), YIA Art Fair (Paris), MAGA Museo Arte Gallarate, Villa Bombrini (Genoa) and Archivio Leonardi V-Idea (Genoa). He taught Digital Design at the Accademia Ligustica di Belle Arti di Genova from 2011 to 2015.