Francesco Jodice
Francesco Jodice (Naples, 1967) lives and works in Milan. After graduating in architecture in 1995, he began his first artistic research using photography and video, and in 1999 took part in founding the Multiplicity collective.
Between 1996 and 2004, his work centered on the relationship between large urban landscapes and the communities that inhabit them, as seen in the projects What We Want and The Secret Traces. His attention then turned to anthropological cultures shaped by new phenomena of megapolitanism, a period that produced Hikikomori and the Citytellers film trilogy. Since 2008, geopolitics has been at the heart of his practice, giving rise to films, installations, and photographic projects such as Atlante, American Recordings, Rivoluzioni, and the more recent West.
Jodice regards artistic practice as a form of civic poetics, often inviting public participation, as in La notte del drive-in. Milano spara and Babel. He teaches at NABA – Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti di Milano.
His work has been shown at major international venues including documenta (Kassel), the Venice Biennale, the São Paulo Biennial, the ICP Triennial (New York), the Liverpool and Yinchuan Biennials, Tate Modern (London), the Museo Nacional del Prado (Madrid), the Castello di Rivoli (Turin), and Galería Marta Cervera (Madrid), among many others, and is held in numerous Italian and international public collections
