Open Studio Patrizia Genovesi – Rome Art Week 2025

Title: Where Are We When We Are Online? Vision, Identity, and Intelligence in the Digital Age

On the occasion of Rome Art Week 2025, Patrizia Genovesi’s Open Studio Gallery opens to the public as a space for dialogue, research, and critical reflection, offering direct and participatory access to the artist’s interdisciplinary universe. The event provides a unique opportunity to engage with the thought and creative practice of a central figure in contemporary visual culture, whose work masterfully interweaves photography, cinema, science, philosophy, and new technologies with both intellectual rigor and expressive freedom.

At the heart of the event is the project Where Are We When We Are Online?—a visual and conceptual essay on identity in the digital age. In this work, Genovesi investigates the transformation of human experience in environments devoid of physical location, redefining the very conditions that allow consciousness to inhabit and orient itself. The digital is explored not as a mere technology, but as an epistemic structure that reshapes perception, inner vision, self-representation, and mental orientation.

This body of theoretical and visual reflections forms the foundational core of Genovesi’s upcoming exhibition project, IDentity, which will premiere in the second half of October. Visitors to the Rome Art Week will be given a preview of the conceptual development of a show that questions the essence of human identity amid the growing symbiosis between human and machine, between the biological and the algorithmic.

The event will include:

• an interactive presentation of the themes explored in Where Are We When We Are Online?

• moments of direct exchange and conversation with the artist, in a setting of open and in-depth dialogue

• exploration of the creative space of the Open Studio, where art emerges not as a fixed product but as a living process

The Open Studio is not an exhibition in the traditional sense, but a living space of vision and reflection, where the audience is invited to take part in the creative process as an active interlocutor, not just a passive viewer. It is an invitation to collectively rethink the future of identity, perception, and presence—at a time when being connected no longer means being situated.