Sandra Sandri (b. 1947, Garessio, Cuneo, Italy) lives and works in Milan, Italy. After studying at the Academy of Fine Arts in Milan, she devoted himself to painting. In the 1970s, she began working in the field of performing arts, using hypnosis to explore the unconscious areas of the psyche. ‘Video and photography,’ wrote Romana Loda in 1977, ’became the ideal means to fix these phenomena as they unfolded, allowing the artist, who is both subject and object of the research, to see herself act in a dimension that, although her own, was previously unknown to her.
In 1977, Sandri participated in the Performance Week at the Galleria Comunale d’Arte Moderna in Bologna, where, lying on the floor amidst candles and smoke, the artist involved the public in a sort of divination rite. In the same year, she participated in the Expo Arte 1977 – Ipotesi ‘80 exhibition in Bari, coordinated by Pietro Marino and curated by Renato Barilli, Achille Bonito Oliva, Filiberto Menna and Lea Vergine, among others.
Recent exhibitions include Dentro il cielo appare un’isola. Le arti povere in Italia fra disegno e fotografia (1963 – 1980), curated by Andrea Bruciati, promoted by the Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Jesi in the Renaissance venue of Palazzo Bisaccioni (2018).
Exhibitions
Marina Apollonio, Mirella Bentivoglio, Valentina Berardinone, Tomaso Binga, Renata Boero, Dadamaino, Lucia Marcucci, Lucia Pescador, Giosetta Fioroni, Libera Mazzoleni, Verita Monselles, Stephanie Oursler, Sandra Sandri, Suzanne Santoro, Grazia Varisco, , , , Nanda Vigo
Romana Loda e l’arte delle donne
