All things laid dormant
Benedetta Casagrande
Nominated by
Benedetta Casagrande
All things laid dormant questions our relationship to more-than-human life in times of extinction. Relying on the ambiguous qualities of the photographic medium that simultaneously hinders and facilitates interactions with the lived environment, Casagrande invites the viewers into a world suspended between presence and absence, proximity and distance, life and death, carving a space for ecological grief within a world in ruins. The body of work brings together photographs, texts and sculptures that speak not only of the loss of our fellow earth-roamers, but also of photography’s own role in environmental ruination, particularly through the mining of silver for the analogue photographic industry. Reclaiming silver from used darkroom fixer and using it to coat handmade sculptures, Casagrande’s ceramic creatures emerge from the spoils of photographic waste.
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The Artist
Benedetta Casagrande
Nominated in
2025
By
Benedetta Casagrande
Lives and Works in
Milan, Italy
Benedetta Casagrande is an artist, writer and educator working with photography. Starting from a theoretical approach in the field of ecology and critical studies, she developed a biocentric practice that uses photography to investigate interspecies relationships and more-than-human life in times of extinctions.
Benedetta is the winner of the Luigi Ghirri Prize (2024), of FE+SK Book Award (2024), and received the honorable mention from the jury of the Francesco Fabbri Prize for Contemporary Arts (2024). She is the commissioned artist for Photo Città della Pieve 2025. Her first photobook, All things laid dormant (Skinnerboox, 2024) was shortlisted for the Arles Authors Book Award and Singapore International Photography Festival Book Award, and received the special mention of the Marco Bastianelli Book Award (2025). Her work has been exhibited in national and international exhibitions, including Triennale Milano (Milan, 2025), Italian Institute of Culture Stockholm (2025), L'Imagerie Centre d'Arte (Lainnon, 2025), Prague Photo Festival (2025), Ph Museum Days (Bologna, 2024), Fotografia Europea, Palazzo dei Musei (Reggio Emilia, 2024), Photo Brussels Festival (2024), ADI Design Museum (Milano, 2023), INSTANCE (Shanghai, 2021) and Photo Ireland Festival (2019). Her writing has been published on digital and print publications such as American Suburb X, inCf Magazine, The Light Observer, Ardesia Projects and Over Journal, and she has written essays for photobooks and catalogues amongst which Lay Her Down Upon Her Back (Róisín White, 2023), How To Raise a Hand (Angelo Vignali, 2022), ITALIA 90 (2021) and Diachronicles (CameraWork, Giulia Parlato, 2020).
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