Biography
Viola Rama is a visual artist based in Italy, with a background in fine art, photography, and graphic design. She works with a multidisciplinary approach, exploring themes of femininity, identity, and posthumanism, and a wide range of common social roles and stereotypes. Often using humor as a tool for social commentary, she deconstructs and reinvents the human appearance, creating a hyper-reality in which the corporal body is used to analyze the interconnections between the natural and the artificial. Through her practice she satirizes the desire for perfection and the fascination with technology in the contemporary world, while touching upon the discomfort elicited by the uncanny.
Website: https://violarama.com/
In the collection:
- Viola Rama, Tender Monsters #4, Photography + AI, 8268×11811 px, 2025 (view artwork)
- Viola Rama, Synthetic Muse #30, Self-Portrait + AI + Digital Painting, PNG, 7087 × 7087 px, 2023 (view artwork)
- Viola Rama, Flux, AI + Digital Painting, PNG, 2023 (view artwork)
Focus on
Exploring the notion of mutation, biomorphic forms and organic structures derived from animals and plants are merged with human forms and extended bodies, evoking the peculiarities of femininity that transcend into monstrosity and stereotypical cultural representations of the female body. Hybridised forms and bizarre creatures portray a hallucinatory future evolution of the human form, while satirizing symbols and representation of the archetypal woman in mythology and contemporary culture.