Dafne Salis

E tu cosa faresti faccia a faccia col nemico?

It has been a pleasure to be in an art residency, from the 6th to the 16th of September, in Castelnuovo di Farfa (RI). The residency, organized by @rete_via_di_francesco_lazio , was about the production of new work to be permanently installed along the "Route of Francis", which is travelled by hundreds of trekkers and pilgrims every year. Sustainability, traditions of local communities, and a more informed relation with Nature were at the core of my reflection during these intense days. The work, titled Sponte, is composed of a giant cyanotype of the edible plants available along the path, and a recipe book to make the most of them. Have a look at it on my website following the link in bio. Thank you @rete_via_di_francesco for the opportunity, and my colleagues for the enriching discussions and mutual support during the week. With: @Francesca.montaldi @italocarrarini @andreapapidesign @_matteocostanzo @pietrodescisciolo @___megx__ #enricomariagorelli @anelo1997

Mostra e presentazione a cura di Dafne Salis Sabato 6 Settembre, 2025 Ore 19:00 33 Officina Creativa vi propone una serata d'arte con una delle nostre artiste in residenza ospitate nel passato: Dafne Salis (AIR 2014) @dafnesalis , che presenterà il suo progetto di ricerca Tecniche e Metodologie per una fotografia etica e di cura. A seguire, il pubblico interessato è invitato a partecipare a un mini laboratorio sullo sguardo. #dafnesalis #33oc #photography #toffia

Very happy to share the final steps of my journey on caring and ethical photography!  The 6th of September at 19.00 I'll be in Toffia 📍 #33oc.artresidency presenting new work! I will also deliver a  workshop about #gazing. Please come along!  What does it mean to look? How do we direct our gazes? What is the responsibility we bear while looking? A reflection mostly needed in those times of objectification of the female body.  The event is part of the project Techniques and Methodologies for Caring and Ethical Photography by Dafne Salis supported by Strategia Fotografia 2024, promoted by the Directorate-General for Contemporary Creativity of the Italian Ministry of Culture. #DGCC #creativitacontemporanea #fotografia #strategiafotografia2024 #vulnerability#inclinations #photographicgaze #diffraction #dafnesalis

Siamo super felici che lunedì 14 e martedì 15 luglio saremo al Mattatoio a Roma con #stitchingmemories 💜 Ci saranno 4 laboratori completamente gratuiti, prenotatevi in dm per il giorno e l’orario preferito!! 14 luglio ore 10.30 -14 e ore 16-19.30 15 luglio ore 10-13.30 e ore 15.30-19 Per partecipare bisogna portare una stampa fotografica che rappresenti un evento di cui si vuole modificare il ricordo! Repost @mattatoio Il 14 e 15 luglio al Mattatoio vi aspetta “Stitching Memories”, un laboratorio curato da Cristina Cusani e Dafne Salis parte del progetto “La Pelanda Open”. “Stitching Memories” ricerca la presenza di strutture di potere all’interno della vita di ciascuno, attraverso l’esplorazione della memoria privata. Con l’aiuto di un’opera corale e l’esercizio dell’autocoscienza, i partecipanti potranno indagare se e come nel loro passato abbia agito il patriarcato o altre forme di potere. Il progetto vive di due fasi. La prima fase consiste in un laboratorio in cui i partecipanti sono invitati a portare una loro foto di famiglia che rappresenti un evento da voler cambiare. Nel corso del laboratorio, con l’aiuto delle artiste, i partecipanti intervengono sull’immagine con il ricamo, così da riparare metaforicamente la propria memoria. All’interno di una atmosfera accogliente, ognuno descrive cosa sta facendo. Grazie alla risonanza tra le storie, la seconda fase del progetto prevede una restituzione delle informazioni raccolte. La narrazione personale ha il potenziale di mettere in luce la sistematicità di eventi se inserita all’interno di una narrazione collettiva. Scopri di più su www.mattatoioroma.it #Mattatoio #MattatoioRoma @cultureroma @roma #CultureRoma

Meet the panelist - 𝐏𝐡𝐨𝐭𝐨𝐠𝐫𝐚𝐩𝐡𝐲 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐂𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐚𝐬 𝐀𝐜𝐭𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐑𝐞𝐬𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞 @cascoleuven moss collective will explore how artists materially transform photographic archives, reframing their surfaces as sites of healing, resistance and agency, engaging artist, subject and viewer. Are images the wound inflicted, the scar that remains, or the new skin that emerges after molting? @curatedbymoss is a transborder curatorial collective founded in 2020 by Lotte Egtberts, Elisa Maupas, Lucie Ménard and Anna Stoppa. Strengthened by the complementarity of their profiles (artist, scientist, mediator, and art historian) and their various professional experiences (galleries, institutions and artist-run spaces in France, Belgium, Italy, the United Kingdom, and the Netherlands), they work organically prioritizing horizontal collaboration with artists, embracing vulnerability and co- dependence as assets in a competitive professional context. In 2022, the collective received a research grant from the Institute of Photography in Lille for the project Deal with it - Aesthetics of repair. moss Collective will be represented by Lucie Ménard @lucienaimoka Head of Educational and Cultural Programmes at Le Fresnoy – Studio national des arts contemporains in Tourcoing (France) and independent curator. Ph1 Other Voices, Hideyuki Ishibashi, 2011 Ph2 moss collective Photography and Care as Acts of Resistance 30th June 2025 at 10 am Cas-co vzw · Studio Vaartstraat. Vaartstraat 94, 3000 Leuven The event is part of the projects Lost in Motherhood by Cristina Cusani and Techniques and Methodologies for Caring and Ethical Photography by Dafne Salis, both supported by Strategia Fotografia 2024, promoted by the Directorate-General for Contemporary Creativity of the Italian Ministry of Culture. #DGCC #creativitacontemporanea #fotografia #strategiafotografia2024 @creativita_contemporanea

Meet the panelist - 𝐏𝐡𝐨𝐭𝐨𝐠𝐫𝐚𝐩𝐡𝐲 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐂𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐚𝐬 𝐀𝐜𝐭𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐑𝐞𝐬𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞 @cascoleuven Hermione Wiltshire is an Artist and Senior Tutor in the Photography Programme at the Royal College Art, London. With her presentation will describe how, in her art practice, she has grappled with Photography’s technical insistence on directing our gaze towards its object.  @hermionewiltshire has exhibited and lectured widely, and her work is held in many public and private collections. She is co-founder of the Health and Care Research Cluster in the School of Arts and Humanities at the Royal College of Art, created and delivers a unit called The Tender Gaze and leads the Material Looking MA Practice Group.  Ph1 I Modi, #5 1997-98 Hermione Wiltshire Ph2 Hermione Wiltshire portrait by Pierre Alozie Photography and Care as Acts of Resistance 30th June 2025 at 10 am Cas-co vzw · Studio Vaartstraat. Vaartstraat 94, 3000 Leuven The event is part of the projects Lost in Motherhood by Cristina Cusani and Techniques and Methodologies for Caring and Ethical Photography by Dafne Salis, both supported by Strategia Fotografia 2024, promoted by the Directorate-General for Contemporary Creativity of the Italian Ministry of Culture. #DGCC #creativitacontemporanea #fotografia #strategiafotografia2024 @creativita_contemporanea

Meet the panelist - 𝐏𝐡𝐨𝐭𝐨𝐠𝐫𝐚𝐩𝐡𝐲 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐂𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐚𝐬 𝐀𝐜𝐭𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐑𝐞𝐬𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞 @cascoleuven Jana Johanna Haeckel is an art historian, curator, and lecturer based in Brussels. During the talk, she will discuss artistic engagements with troubled image archives as a form of caring and collective world-building. By focusing on intuitive and sensuous knowledge production, the introduced artistic works offer reparative and at the same time playful counter-imagery, giving visibility to lived realities that are often left out, erased or forgotten in the legacies of hegemonic historiographies. @jana.j.haeckel holds a PhD in art history and works as independent curator. She currently lectures at the Photography and Curatorial Studies Department at KASK & Conservatorium @schoolofartsgent where she also supervises the research cluster Archival Sensations. Prior to this, she has served as director of Photoforum Pasquart in Biel/Bienne, Switzerland, and has worked as curator and project manager for the Goethe-Institut Brussels, as guest-curator for Pinakothek der Moderne in Munich and as curator at Acud Gallery Berlin. She was a lecturer at various international universities and art schools. Her essays and reviews have been published in The British Journal of Photography, Trigger, EIKON, Monopol, Mousse Magazine and elsewhere. Ph1 Bianca Baldi, Hear her calendar system a year of thirteen months (2025), Exhibition view of ‘Magical Realism: Imagining Natural Dis/order’, WIELS, 2025. Photo: Eline Willaert. Ph2 Jana Haeckel Photography and Care as Acts of Resistance 30th June 2025 at 10 am Cas-co vzw · Studio Vaartstraat. Vaartstraat 94, 3000 Leuven The event is part of the projects Lost in Motherhood by Cristina Cusani and Techniques and Methodologies for Caring and Ethical Photography by Dafne Salis, both supported by Strategia Fotografia 2024, promoted by the Directorate-General for Contemporary Creativity of the Italian Ministry of Culture. #DGCC #creativitacontemporanea #fotografia #strategiafotografia2024 @creativita_contemporanea

30.06.2025, 10:00—12:00 ‘Photography and Care as Acts of Resistance’ - Cristina Cusani & Dafne Salis. Talk is free to attend, English spoken. Cas-co, Vaartstraat 94. ⛳ Cas-co is pleased to invite you all to the talk 𝐏𝐡𝐨𝐭𝐨𝐠𝐫𝐚𝐩𝐡𝐲 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐂𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐚𝐬 𝐀𝐜𝐭𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐑𝐞𝐬𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞 organised by @cristinacusani @dafnesalis on the 30th June 2025 at 10 am. The talk explores the aesthetics of reparative practices in photography and artistic creation. It highlights the reparative value of curating archival collections, both within institutional settings and in artists’ works, with a focus on how such acts can challenge and subvert dominant narratives. The invited panelists are Jana Haeckel @jana.j.haeckel lecturer at the Kask & Conservatorium School of Arts Gent and associate senior researcher at the Lieven Gevaert Research Centre for Photography Art and Visual Culture, the moss curatorial collective @curatedbymoss in the person of Lucie Menard @lucienaimoka head of education programmes at Le Fresnoy — Studio national des arts contemporains and Hermione Wiltshire @hermionewiltshire artist and professor at the Royal College of Art. The artists Cristina Cusani @cristinacusani and Dafne Salis @dafnesalis will moderate the discussion and will present their work. See you on Monday! Photography and Care as Acts of Resistance 30th June 2025 at 10 AM Cas-co vzw · Studio Vaartstraat. Vaartstraat 94, 3000 Leuven The event is part of the projects 𝐿𝑜𝑠𝑡 𝑖𝑛 𝑀𝑜𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟ℎ𝑜𝑜𝑑 by Cristina Cusani and 𝑇𝑒𝑐ℎ𝑛𝑖𝑞𝑢𝑒𝑠 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑀𝑒𝑡ℎ𝑜𝑑𝑜𝑙𝑜𝑔𝑖𝑒𝑠 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝐶𝑎𝑟𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝐸𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑐𝑎𝑙 𝑃ℎ𝑜𝑡𝑜𝑔𝑟𝑎𝑝ℎ𝑦 by Dafne Salis, both supported by Strategia Fotografia 2024, promoted by the Directorate-General for Contemporary Creativity of the Italian Ministry of Culture. #DGCC #creativitacontemporanea #fotografia #strategiafotografia2024 @creativita_contemporanea

We are pleased to invite you all to the talk 𝐏𝐡𝐨𝐭𝐨𝐠𝐫𝐚𝐩𝐡𝐲 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐂𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐚𝐬 𝐀𝐜𝐭𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐑𝐞𝐬𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞 @cascoleuven on the 30th June 2025 at 10 am.  The talk explores the aesthetics of reparative practices in photography and artistic creation. It highlights the reparative value of curating archival collections, both within institutional settings and in artists’ works, with a focus on how such acts can challenge and subvert dominant narratives. The invited panelists are Jana Haeckel @jana.j.haeckel lecturer at the Kask & Conservatorium School of Arts Gent and associate senior researcher at the Lieven Gevaert Research Centre for Photography Art and Visual Culture, the moss curatorial collective @curatedbymoss in the person of Lucie Menard @lucienaimoka head of education programmes at Le Fresnoy — Studio national des arts contemporains and Hermione Wiltshire @hermionewiltshire artist and professor at the Royal College of Art. The artists Cristina Cusani @cristinacusani and Dafne Salis @dafnesalis will moderate the discussion and will present their work.  See you on Monday! Photography and Care as Acts of Resistance 30th June 2025 at 10 am Cas-co vzw · Studio Vaartstraat. Vaartstraat 94, 3000 Leuven The event is part of the projects 𝐿𝑜𝑠𝑡 𝑖𝑛 𝑀𝑜𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟ℎ𝑜𝑜𝑑 by Cristina Cusani and 𝑇𝑒𝑐ℎ𝑛𝑖𝑞𝑢𝑒𝑠 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑀𝑒𝑡ℎ𝑜𝑑𝑜𝑙𝑜𝑔𝑖𝑒𝑠 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝐶𝑎𝑟𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝐸𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑐𝑎𝑙 𝑃ℎ𝑜𝑡𝑜𝑔𝑟𝑎𝑝ℎ𝑦 by Dafne Salis, both supported by Strategia Fotografia 2024, promoted by the Directorate-General for Contemporary Creativity of the Italian Ministry of Culture. #DGCC #creativitacontemporanea #fotografia #strategiafotografia2024 @creativita_contemporanea

Very happy to invite you all to the talk: Photography and Care as acts of resistance on the 30th June 2025, 10 am, 📍@cascoleuven The talk explores the aesthetics of reparative practices in photography and artistic creation. It highlights the reparative value of curating archival collections, both within institutional settings and in artists' works, with a focus on how such acts can challenge and subvert dominant narratives. The invited panelists are Jana Heackel, @jana.j.haeckel lecturer at the Kask & Conservatorium School of Arts Gent and associate senior researcher at the Lieven Gevaert Research Centre for Photography Art and Visual Culture, the moss curatorial collective, @curatedbymoss in the person of Lucie Menard,@lucienaimoka head of education programmes at Le Fresnoy — Studio national des arts contemporains and Hermione Wiltshire @hermionewiltshire artist and professor at the Royal College of Art. I will moderate and present my work together with my friend and colleague @cristinacusani   In the afternoon, the Archival Sensation Cluster from the Kask & Conservatorium School of Arts Gent and the Care Research Group from the Royal College of Art, @royalcollegeofart are invited to present their latest works and discuss together themes of repair and care. One of the group will focus on reparative and mending practices, enquiring how knowledge is handled; the other will engage with the potential of a critical, collective engagement with archives as "reparative practices" building on the idea of "critical fabulations”.  #DGCC #creativitacontemporanea #fotografia #strategiafotografia2024 The event is part of the projects Lost in Motherhood by Cristina Cusani and Techniques and Methodologies for Caring and Ethical Photography by Dafne Salis, both supported by Strategia Fotografia 2024, promoted by the Directorate-General for Contemporary Creativity of the Italian Ministry of Culture.

🇬🇧 Vulnerability and Diffraction. A thought through the photographic lenses.   📍 Casa Internazionale delle Donne, the 9th of May 2025, h. 17.00.  The invited panelists are Art History Associate Professor, Francesco Ventrella, from the University of Sussex, who will explore the relationship between recovery and resonance in their relation to portraiture, self-writing and historical narratives. Nora Heidorn, PhD curator and researcher, will present her long-term curatorial research project Being Horizontal, which investigates the gazes with which we look at reclined and inclined bodies differently to upright figures, informed by the essay 'Inclinazioni' by A. Cavarero; and Dr.Isabella Pinto, PhD, Research fellow (University of Perugia), and co-coordinator of the Master's program in Gender Studies and Policies (University of Roma Tre) who will delve into the concept of diffraction, following the writings of Donna Haraway and Karen Barad. The moderation, by Dafne Salis, will try to connect those themes with photographic practice. The talk will be followed by a discussion and questions from the audience. The event is part of the project ‘Techniques and methodologies for caring and ethical photography’ supported by Strategia Fotografia 2024, promoted by the Directorate-General for Contemporary Creativity of the Italian Ministry of Culture #DGCC #CreativitaContemporanea #Fotografia #StrategiaFotografia2024 🇮🇹Diffrazione e Vulnerabilità. Una riflessione attraverso le lenti fotografiche. 📍Casa Internazionale Delle Donne, il 9 maggio 2025, h. 17.00. Interverranno il professore associato di storia dell'arte, Francesco Ventrella, dell'Università del Sussex, che esplorerà  il rapporto tra ripresa e risonanza nella loro relazione con il ritratto, la scrittura di sé e le narrazioni della storia; la dottoressa Nora Heidorn, P.h.D. curatrice e ricercatrice, presenterà il suo progetto curatoriale a lungo termine Being Horizontal, che indaga gli sguardi con i quali guardiamo i corpi reclinati e inclinati (continua nei commenti)