Nina Carini: Art Between Visible and Invisible

Nina Carini (Palermo, 1984) is an Italian artist whose work explores the tension between presence and disappearance, the visible and invisible. She studied at Accademia di Belle Arti di Verona, Brera, and ENSBA Lyon, where she created the performance "Confine" (2018), now part of the MART Museum collection. Her practice spans sculpture, drawing, poetry, installation, photography, and sound. Her installation "Lingue di Cielo" (2023–2025), at Palazzo Lantieri in Gorizia, combines organic materials, fossils, sculptures, and reflective surfaces, inspired by constellation symbols. The sound installation "Le cose in pericolo (A, B, C, D, E…)" features children reading lists of endangered languages, cultures, and places. Carini's recent residency at Museo Carlo Zauli in Faenza led to three projects exploring human-nature relationships, to be exhibited in November curated by Gaspare Luigi Marcone. She is also developing a new sound installation from diary fragments and a sculpture series on endangered plant species, influenced by Federico Campagna's "Cultura profetica."