Alex Majoli
From the age of 15, Alex Majoli becomes apprentice in the photo studio F45 in Ravenne, notably specialised in the reproduction of artworks from the great Italian painting. Graduated from the Art Institute of Ravenne in 1991, he joins Grazia Neri agency for which he covers the yugoslav conflict for several years.
From the age of 15, Alex Majoli becomes apprentice in the photo studio F45 in Ravenne, notably specialised in the reproduction of artworks from the great Italian painting. Graduated from the Art Institute of Ravenne in 1991, he joins Grazia Neri agency for which he covers the yugoslav conflict for several years.
His work on the closing of the famous psychatric institution in Leros, Greece, in 1994-1995 marks a turning point in his practice. Influenced by the 1970’s forefront italian theatrical and notably Luigi Pirandello’s writings, Alex Majoli tries to explore the daily life theatricalness, when the borders between reality and fiction fade. His work Tudo Bom, continuation of his research, interrogates the forms of violence omnipresent in brasilians daily lives.
With his last project SCENE, initiated in 2010 in Europe, he starts a new phase of experimentation. In his photographs, results of a performed action, each of his subjects becomes actor of his own history as well as a silent fragment of a collective history.
Laureate of the Guggenheim Fellowship in 2016, Alex Majoli published numerous books, including Andante (Cesura, 2018), Congo (Aperture, 2015), Libera Me (Trolley Books, 2010), Leros (Trolley Books, 2009) and One Vote (Filigranes Editions, 2004). His work has been exhibited at the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Ravenne, the Rencontres d’Arles and the Galerie Nationale d’Art Moderne of Rome.
Alex Majoli is born in Ravenne in 1971, he lives and works between New York and Sicilia. Member of Magnum Photos from 2001, he has been represented by the Howard Greenberg Gallery.
