Alessandra Spranzi on Balance, Gravity, and the Everyday

Key facts

• Alessandra Spranzi was born in Milan in 1962.
• She studied at Scuola Politecnica di Design and Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera.
• She currently teaches photography at Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera.
• Her work includes photography, collage, video, and photographs of photographs.
• Exhibition 'Il quale cerca solamente la bellezza, nel modo qui descritto' at Casa Morandi, Bologna, 2025.
• Exhibition 'Sul tavolo' at The Women's Darkroom + Gallery, New York, 2024.
• Exhibition 'Egli rincorre i fatti come un pattinatore principiante, che per di più si esercita dove è vietato' at P420, Bologna, 2023.
• Exhibition 'Numero Speciale' at COMMERCE, Milan, 2023.
• Exhibition 'les yeux les oufs, les jeux' at IUNO, Rome, 2022.
• Exhibition 'Ogni giorno' at LCA Studio Legale, Milan, 2021.
• Spranzi references a line from Thomas Bernhard: 'For a body to be stable it needs at least three points of support.'
• She wrote a text for the series 'Tornando a casa' (1997) about domestic fires: 'the hand does not move to seek water.'
• The title of her P420 show quotes Franz Kafka.
• The interview was conducted by Davide Dal Sasso.
• Davide Dal Sasso is a researcher in aesthetics at Scuola IMT Alti Studi Lucca.