Rossella Biscotti

The Journey, 2023

When the artist received a 20-tonne block of marble, she decided not to sculpt it, but to release it into the sea. Loaded onto a boat, the block followed a route through Italy, Malta, Tunisia and Libya, before being submerged in May 2021. The action aimed to use this journey to address historical and contemporary narratives, such as migration routes, maritime borders and underwater archaeological remains. The Journey includes songs and voices from local musicians, fishermen and activists, interweaving the purr of engines, the swirl of the sea and the echoes of marine life, a sensory experience rather than mere documentation.

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The Journey, 2025

For Art in the center, the display space made available to Edhea by the Payot bookshop in Sion.

Rossella Biscotti chose a detail from a photograph depicting the surface of the sea at the point where she chose to release a block of Carrara marble, as part of her project The Journey, to be carried out in 2021. Loaded onto a boat, the block had followed an itinerary passing through Italy, Malta, Tunisia and Libya, before being submerged. The journey explored historical and contemporary narratives, and featured the mountain, in this case Carrara. The origin of Carrara marble can be traced back to limestone deposits at the bottom of the sea, when it covered north-eastern Tuscany over two hundred million years ago. With this poster, the sea comes to the mountain. A Valais mountain that also carries oceanic memories.

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Rossella Biscotti

Born in 1978
Based in Brussels

Rossella Biscotti combines sculpture, video, performance and installation. Her work explores individual and collective narratives, often in relation to recent political and social events. Through in-depth research, she questions mechanisms of power and institutional structures, as in her installation based on the Autonomia Operaia trial in Italy (Il Processo, 2010-2012), or her sound work based on dreams collected in a women's prison in Venice (I dreamt that you changed into a cat... gatto... ha ha ha, 2013).