Premio Combat Prize

The video Self-Portrait is a group of six interviews with six different women, including myself, on six different topics.
The first two interviews are colored in green, the third and fourth in white and the fifth and sixth in red.
The six protagonists are: Judith Thurman (writer), Ingrid Rossellini (professor), Anna Siciliano (student), Marina Sagona (artist), Giovanna Calvino (author) and Anna Funder (writer).
Judith Thurman talks about her parents and her childhood; Ingrid Rossellini talks about moving to New York city in the early eighties and political correctness; Anna Siciliano talks about the difference between American and Italian upbringing and also about anxiety; Marina Sagona talks about codependence and abandonment; Giovanna Calvino talks about depression and approval; Anna Funder talks about chemical identity.
Through the words of these women, my self-portrait takes shape.
I selected the sentences I can identify with completely in the course of the editing.
Marina Sagona was born in Rome in 1967 and in 1995 she moves to New York where she begins her artistic career as an illustrator working for publications such as The New York Times and The New Yorker.
In 2002, after her daughter was born and diagnosed with a rare form of infantile anorexia, she decides to devote herself entirely to her and to visual art.
SELECT SOLO EXHIBITIONS:
2018
La Prigioniera/The Prisoner
Fondaco Gallery, Rome
2017
Eden
Ierimonti Gallery, New York
2016 “Harpies and Beatrices”
La Nuova Pesa Gallery, Rome
2016
The Comedy of Women
Ierimonti Gallery, New York
2012
Less and More
Generation Gallery, New York
2011
Amour Fou
Tricromia Gallery, Rome
2009
Coincidence
41artecontemporanea, Turin
2008
At Home
Marte Gallery, Rome
2007
Punti Fermi
Le Nuvole Gallery, Palermo
SELECT GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2019
L’infinito Presente: 29 Poeti e 29 Artisti per il Bicentenario de l’Infinito di Leopardi
Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Rome
2018
L’infinito Presente: 29 Poeti e 29 Artisti per il Bicentenario de l’Infinito di Leopardi
WeGil, Rome
2017
Trame d’Autore—47 Years 1 Month 3 Days: Pizzi Cannella, Nagasawa, Pietrosanti, Sagona, Salvatori, Kounellis
Auditorium Parco della Musica, Rome
2015
Premio Fabbri Quinta Edizione
Palazzo Pepoli Campogrande, Bologna
2011
La Recherche
RvB Arts, Rome
2009
Le parole per dirlo: Gregorio Botta, Denis Pondruel, Sylvie Romieu, Marina Sagona.
Marte Gallery, Rome
2007
Bratislava Biennial
Slovak National Theatre, Bratislava
2000
I Live Here
California College of Arts and Crafts, San Francisco
1997
Hands Off Cain
Caffè Benetton, New York
SELECT BOOKS INCLUDE
2013
My Inner Witch
published by Mondadori
2011
Amour Fou
published by Italic Arte
2008
At Home
published by Orecchio Acerbo
Marina Sagona is the recipient of the 2017 Strategic 50 Award.
In 2014 she co-curated the exhibition “Dante Ferretti: Design and Construction for the Cinema” at MoMA.