Polly Palmerini was born in Italy and is an artist and educator currently based in Manchester. Her practice explores materiality, malleability and the performative quality of everyday objects, in relation to how as humans we connect to ideas of brokenness , un-used, damage; and to investigate new fictions using photography, performance, and sculptural.
Her research considered the interconnectivity of human and object-form, and following an object-oriented feminism (OOF) ideal and intervention - which considers and approaches all objects from the inside-out position of being an object, too.
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She was the British Council Artist-in-Residence during the Venice Biennale in 2017. She also curates the Museum of Half Truths, which was presented in 1a Space, Hong Kong and Contact Theatre, Manchester. This project was funded in different occasions by MIF, Manchester Metropolitan Univerisity and Hong Kong's Development Art Fund in 2020-2023.
She has exhibited during the Pingyao International Photography Festival, China in 2019 and 2024 - and during the Les Rencontres d’Arles at the Voies Off, France in 2018 and 2022.
Recent graduate from MA Photographic Arts at University of Westminster. Exhibited in Ambika P3, London, December 2023 as part of OFFSET, SET OFF; and published in Surface Editions, Reconstruct.
And member of the Peer Matters, peer mentoriship programme of Photoworks.
@pollypalmerini / @museumofhalftruths /
contact: pollypalmerini (@) gmail.com
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Image Credit: Audrey Albert
Her research considered the interconnectivity of human and object-form, and following an object-oriented feminism (OOF) ideal and intervention - which considers and approaches all objects from the inside-out position of being an object, too.
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She was the British Council Artist-in-Residence during the Venice Biennale in 2017. She also curates the Museum of Half Truths, which was presented in 1a Space, Hong Kong and Contact Theatre, Manchester. This project was funded in different occasions by MIF, Manchester Metropolitan Univerisity and Hong Kong's Development Art Fund in 2020-2023.
She has exhibited during the Pingyao International Photography Festival, China in 2019 and 2024 - and during the Les Rencontres d’Arles at the Voies Off, France in 2018 and 2022.
Recent graduate from MA Photographic Arts at University of Westminster. Exhibited in Ambika P3, London, December 2023 as part of OFFSET, SET OFF; and published in Surface Editions, Reconstruct.
And member of the Peer Matters, peer mentoriship programme of Photoworks.
@pollypalmerini / @museumofhalftruths /
contact: pollypalmerini (@) gmail.com
Image Credit: Audrey Albert
Exhibitions / Publication
2024 Brighton Photo Weekender, with Peer Matters x Photoworks.
2024 November (upcoming) Amoeba, PINK, Stockport
2024 October Pingyao International Photography Festival, China curated by David Bate.
2024 Thinking Out Loud, Benzie Building, Manchester
2023 OFF SET / SET OFF, Ambika P3, London
2023 Surface Editions - ‘Reconstruct’, group publication.
2023 Freedom, desire, community – MDC Research Group Exhibition, MODAL Gallery, School of Digital Arts.
2023 Paper Geographies, FORMAT International PhotographyFestival – Derby, UK.
2022 Paper Geographies, Voies Off Festival - Arles, France.
2020 Paper Geographies, Manchester Central Library, Manchester
2019 Natural Light, AIR Gallery / Lumen Studios, Manchester.
2019 TOIL, Grosvenor Gallery, Manchester
2018 Beyond the Camera V, Pingyao International Photography Festival, China, curated by Sian Bonnell
2018 ROUTE, Voies Off Festival - Arles France
2018 In Flight, Degree Show at Manchester School of Art, MMU
2018 A Month at the Venice Art Biennale, Bow Arts, London
2017 Make/Shift, Plant Noma, Manchester
2017 Into the Labyrinth, International 3, Salford
Curatorial Projects
2021 An Anthology of Joy - MOHT (Contact Theatre, Manchester) funded by MIF.
2021 First Light, New Northern Graduate Photography
2020 Museum of Half Truths, 1a Space - Hong Kong. Funded by 1aspace and HKDF.
2019 The Place, Grosvenor Gallery.
2018 Route, Voies Off Festival, Arles
Residencies and other
2024 Peer Matters, Photoworks
2019 Cultural Digital Designer in Residence, Abraham Moss High School and People’s History Museum
2017-8 Venice Art Biennale Fellowship - British Council funded - Venice, Italy
2024 Brighton Photo Weekender, with Peer Matters x Photoworks.
2024 November (upcoming) Amoeba, PINK, Stockport
2024 October Pingyao International Photography Festival, China curated by David Bate.
2024 Thinking Out Loud, Benzie Building, Manchester
2023 OFF SET / SET OFF, Ambika P3, London
2023 Surface Editions - ‘Reconstruct’, group publication.
2023 Freedom, desire, community – MDC Research Group Exhibition, MODAL Gallery, School of Digital Arts.
2023 Paper Geographies, FORMAT International PhotographyFestival – Derby, UK.
2022 Paper Geographies, Voies Off Festival - Arles, France.
2020 Paper Geographies, Manchester Central Library, Manchester
2019 Natural Light, AIR Gallery / Lumen Studios, Manchester.
2019 TOIL, Grosvenor Gallery, Manchester
2018 Beyond the Camera V, Pingyao International Photography Festival, China, curated by Sian Bonnell
2018 ROUTE, Voies Off Festival - Arles France
2018 In Flight, Degree Show at Manchester School of Art, MMU
2018 A Month at the Venice Art Biennale, Bow Arts, London
2017 Make/Shift, Plant Noma, Manchester
2017 Into the Labyrinth, International 3, Salford
Curatorial Projects
2021 An Anthology of Joy - MOHT (Contact Theatre, Manchester) funded by MIF.
2021 First Light, New Northern Graduate Photography
2020 Museum of Half Truths, 1a Space - Hong Kong. Funded by 1aspace and HKDF.
2019 The Place, Grosvenor Gallery.
2018 Route, Voies Off Festival, Arles
Residencies and other
2024 Peer Matters, Photoworks
2019 Cultural Digital Designer in Residence, Abraham Moss High School and People’s History Museum
2017-8 Venice Art Biennale Fellowship - British Council funded - Venice, Italy