Her photographic practice takes a transdisciplinary and research-based approach. Her work explores interconnected themes, including a sense of belonging, kinship, and the memory of people and places. She uses photography to recreate social relationships through signs, symbols, and gestures. She holds a master's degree in Philosophy, cum laude, from the University of Bologna; a master's degree from the Academy of Fine Arts; a master's degree in Law; and specializations in Administrative Sciences and Digital Archives. Her work is included in several collections, and she has exhibited in Italy and abroad.

EXHIBITIONS

• Unlikely Monuments. In dialogue. Merini / Carducci. Bologna, 30th January - 29th March 2026.

• Tabling Emotion, a collaborative curatorial project, The Daphne Caruana Galizia Foundation + R Gallery, Malta, July-August 2025

• Flashpoint! Protest Photography in Print. !950 - present, Contact Gallery, 1st May - reading room exhibition - June 2025, Toronto, Canada

• Mise en Scene. Immagini e libri dalla collezione Donata Pizzi. A cura di Luca Panaro. Palazzo del Duca, Senigallia - collective exhibition - 17th May - 2nd November 2025

• MONUMENTI IMPROBABILI/UNLIKELY MONUMENTS - Istituto Storico Parri - Art Bologna City 2024

• A PLACE TO LIVE. Focus Artphilein, Lugano, Switzerland, 21st September - 30th November 2023

• CIVILIZATION. The WAY WE LIVE NOW. Saatchi Gallery, London, 2 nd June - 23rd September 2023

• TAKE ME TO LIVE WITH YOU. A Social Family Album. Blue Sky Gallery , Portland, Oregon, US,  December 2021

• Scolpite - Donne Fotografe - Palazzo Reale, Milan - July 2021

• (Re) Framing our Identities, Art City/Arte Fiera 2020, Camera del Lavoro di Bologna

• (Un) Framing our Identities, RPS, Old Telephone Hub, London, May-July 2019

• LARES FAMILIARES, Italian Cultural Institute, London, 21st March - 30 April 2019

• THE FAMILY of NO MAN, Cosmos, Les Rencontres de La Photographie, Arles, 2nd - 7th July 2018

• NAPOLI TRA SPIRITUALITA' E DESIDERIO DI RISCATTO/LARES FAMILIARES, MLB Home Gallery, Ferrara, 29th September - 22nd October 2017.

• FENOMEN FOTOLLIBRE, CCCB, Foto Colectania, with the photobook AVREI POTUTO ESSERE IO/IT COULD HAVE BEEN ME, Barcellona 17th March - 27th August 2017

• PRENDIMI A VIVERE CON TE/TAKE ME TO LIVE WITH YOU, Fondazione Carlo Gajani, Art City, Bologna, January 2017, testo di/essay by Roberta Valtorta.

• LARES FAMILIARES, Museo Archeologico di Napoli. Exhibition curated by Marco De Gemmis e Gerry Badger. 6th November - 8th December 2016.

• ARCHEOLOGIE FAMILIARI/FAMILY ARCHAEOLOGIES, Uncertain States Annual 2015. Mile End Art Pavilion, London, November 2015.

• AVREI POTUTO ESSERE IO/IT COULD HAVE BEEN ME, Monument to the Bologna massacre 2nd August 1980/Stazione Alta Velocità di Bologna/High Speed Train Station at Bologna, 31st July - 15th September 2015.

• LAST PORTRAIT'S PORTRAITS. Photomonth East London. St John on Bethnal Green.  London 7th-19th October 2014.

• PREMIO ARTE 2013. Milano, Palazzo della Permanente - dal 24 al 27 ottobre 2013.

• OBIETTIVO CANESTRO. Bologna, Palazzo Comunale. Manica lunga. dal 5 al 21 giugno 2013.

  EDUCATION

  • Academy of Fine Arts (Bologna)

  • Law (University of Bologna)

  • Philosophy (University of Bologna)

  BOOKS

  • UNLIKELY MONUMENTS. Excerpt from the catalogue. Tosca Press, 2024

  • LOOKING FOR MY DAUGHTERS. A book of Love and Worries, Artphilein Editions, Lugano, 2022

  • TAKE ME TO LIVE WITH YOU. A Social Family Album, Kehrer Verlag, Heidelberg, 2021

  • LAST PORTRAIT, Tosca Press, London 2019

  • LARES FAMILIARES, booklet, Giannini Editore, Napoli, 2016 

  • ARCHEOLOGIE FAMILIARI/FAMILY ARCHAEOLOGIES, artist's book, 2015

  • AVREI POTUTO ESSERE IO/IT COULD HAVE BEEN ME "monumento portatile" "portable monument" self published, 2015, about 2nd of August 1980 Bologna massacre (85 copies for 85 supporters/15 artist's proofs). Each copy has an original print, signed and numbered

  • RITRATTI DELL'ULTIMO RITRATTO. Danilo Montanari Editore 2013. Edition of 100 + 30

  LAST INTERVIEWS, REVIEWS AND STUDIES

• Inhabiting Memories : Photography and Domestic Interiors in

  Take Me to Live with You, Flavia Matitti, in OIKOGRAPHY

  Homemaking through Photography,

  Ali Shobeiri & Helen Westgeest (eds.)

  Leiden University Press, 2025

• Flashpoint! Protest Photography in Prints. 1950 -Present, 10 x10 Photobooks, New York City, 2024

• Best Face Forward. Some thoughts on Portrait Photography, Gerry Badger, Prestel, 2024

• “A Place to Live” - Matteo M. Paolucci - Cahier n. 6 - Artphilein Editions - Paradiso, Switzerland

• “Looking for My Daughters” - Photobook Journal, Review by Gerhard (Gerry) Clausing, 2023

• “Take Me to Live with You” - PhotoBook Journal, Review by Gerhard (Gerry) Clausing, 2022

• We Are, the RPS Women in Photography Magazine, issue 2, 2022

• Contested Memories and Acts of Counter-Commemoration as Temporary Utopian Spaces in “Conversations on Utopia. Cultural and Communication Practices”, Raffaella Baccolini, Peter Lang Verlag, 2020

• Looking into Death: Trauma, Memory and Human Face,  Patrizia Violi, 2022