Benedetta Manfriani
Interdisciplinary visual artist
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PROFILE
Benedetta Manfriani is an interdisciplinary visual artist working across voice, sound and participatory practices.
Her work explores the voice as an aesthetic, relational and political medium, translating collective vocal processes into visual and spatial forms. Through immersive installations, moving image and participatory projects, she develops contexts in which listening becomes a shared practice and a tool for collective construction.
She operates across institutional, educational and socially complex environments, including museums and detention contexts.
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RESEARCH FIELDS
Immersive installation · Sound art · Moving image · Photography · Participatory practices · Socially engaged art
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SELECTED PROJECTS
ALVEOLI (2025–ongoing)
Research-based project on collective voice
CONfusion (2016–ongoing)
Participatory vocal practice
Based at MAD – Murate Art District, Florence
Dupli-città (2025)
Participatory photography-based project
Developed at Istituto Penale Minorile, Florence
Editorial publication in progress (Publimedia)
Pieces for Peace (2025)
Participatory vocal project
Developed in a women’s correctional facility, Florence
In collaboration with Tempo Reale
Documentary film in post-production
Threshold States (2023–ongoing)
Moving image work
Quanto resta della notte (2022)
Audiovisual installation
Presented at MAD – Murate Art District, Florence
QuaranTeens (2021)
Participatory vocal project across distance
International project involving participants from 51 countries
Developed in collaboration with MAD – Murate Art District and Tempo Reale
Presented at Piazza del Carmine, Florence
Mediterranea (2018)
Multimedia performative installation
Sound design by Agnese Banti
Developed in collaboration with Tempo Reale
Presented at:
CineEco Festival, Seia (Portugal)
MAD – Murate Art District, Florence
Festival dei Diritti, Florence
Borgo San Lorenzo, International Day of Ceramics
Ikigai Room, Bologna
RIVERS / RIVA (2018)
Direction of Yuval Avital’s work
Presented at Museo Marino Marini, Florence and Tempo Reale Festival
Wunde(r) (2016)
Photographic project
Presented at Istituto Italiano di Cultura, Hamburg
Oltre lo sguardo (2013)
Sound sculpture
Presented at Istituto degli Innocenti, Florence
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TEACHING & WORKSHOPS
She conducts workshops, laboratories and artistic residencies in educational and socially engaged contexts, focusing on voice and participatory practices as tools for relation and collective creation.
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COLLABORATIONS
MAD – Murate Art District · Tempo Reale · Museo Nazionale (Warsaw) · Rochester Art Center · Museo Marino Marini · Istituto Penale Minorile (Florence) · COSPE
Collaborations include Yuval Avital and Roberto Laneri (voice performance).
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EDUCATION
Degree in Pedagogy, University of Florence
Université Sorbonne, Paris (Erasmus)
Vocal training with Faye Nepon, Monica Benvenuti, Niconote, Roberto Laneri
Seminar with Paul Farrington, London
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STATEMENT
Her practice investigates how voice can be translated into visual and spatial forms. Through immersive installations and participatory processes, she explores how sound and collective vocality can generate relational environments and make visible latent social dynamics.
Email: benedettamanfriani67@gmail.com
Website: benedettamanfriani.com