Moira Ricci
40x40x10 cm, wood, wallpaper, led-lights battery operated, paper, photo-prints
Some time ago I bought a drawer of a furniture for printing shops at a flea market. Looking at it vertically, it made me think of a miniature dollhouse. I therefore used part of the drawer as if it was the facade of an exposed building. For each apartment I recreated life scenes of contemporary everyday life, using the technique of photographic collage mixed with lights and other materials. The tenants are very small and that's why I added a magnifying glass to observe the work in detail.
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Moira Ricci (born in 1977 in Orbetello, Italy) is a visual artist who lives and works in Rimini. Her multidisciplinary practice spans photography, video, installation, and digital media, often exploring themes of memory, personal history, and collective identity. Deeply rooted in autobiographical experience, her work navigates the intersection between private narratives and broader social realities, creating emotionally resonant and conceptually layered visual worlds.
Ricci gained recognition for her poignant series "20.12.53 – 10.08.04", in which she digitally inserts herself into family photographs of her late mother, weaving past and present into an intimate act of mourning and memory reconstruction. Her work reflects on the passage of time and the relationship between image, presence, and absence, often using archival material and subtle interventions to evoke the fragility of human connections.
She studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Florence and at the Fondazione Studio Marangoni in Florence. Her work has been exhibited at major international venues, including MAXXI in Rome, the Centre Pompidou in Paris, and the Venice Biennale. Moira Ricci continues to engage with new technologies and narrative forms to explore the emotional depth of the visual medium.
Ricci gained recognition for her poignant series "20.12.53 – 10.08.04", in which she digitally inserts herself into family photographs of her late mother, weaving past and present into an intimate act of mourning and memory reconstruction. Her work reflects on the passage of time and the relationship between image, presence, and absence, often using archival material and subtle interventions to evoke the fragility of human connections.
She studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Florence and at the Fondazione Studio Marangoni in Florence. Her work has been exhibited at major international venues, including MAXXI in Rome, the Centre Pompidou in Paris, and the Venice Biennale. Moira Ricci continues to engage with new technologies and narrative forms to explore the emotional depth of the visual medium.