Antonella De Sarno

Antonella De Sarno is an actress-performer and visual artist who explores movement and its scenic and expressive potential through performance language and visual arts. She is of Emilian origin, she lives in the Parisian region where she settled to finish her university and artistic studies. In 2002 she meets Pippo Delbono with whom she begins a theatrical training and she deepens her vision of the performing arts. In 2008 she joined her company with which she worked for four years. She enriches her training by studying contemporary dance and somatic techniques and is trained in Sensitive Dance, obtaining the certification of teacher in 2008. In the same years her work as a visual artist is oriented towards a more bodily and sensorial approach. Since 2010 she has been conducting experiential workshops and seminars aimed at different types of audiences, orienting them towards research on the themes that she explores in her visual and performative works. As author and performer she creates two theatrical shows together with Roberto De Sarno: Onora il padre e la madre (2012) and Non mentire (2018). Since 2016 she has dedicated herself more specifically to the visual arts and she works on the Triptych This Brief Tragedy of Flesh, a device that is divided into performances, installations and visual works produced in Italy and France. From the same year she is the artist in residence at Les Deux Iles Résidence pour artistes in Montbazon (France). Antonella De Sarno's works have been presented as in situ performances or exhibitions (video-performances, installations, drawings and pictorial works) at The Room Contemporary art Space and at Palazzo Albrizzi-Capello in Venice (2020), N.U.N.C. in Castiglion Fiorentino (Arezzo, 2019), the Contemporary Art Gallery of Palazzo Ducale in Pavullo nel Frignano (Modena, 2017), Sottovento in Pavia (2016) and Pangea in Padua (2015). The Faces from the dark installation is among the works recommended by the jury and published in the catalog of the Combat 2020 Award. In 2021, the Nebula video installation was recommended by the jury of the same award and entered the catalog.