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Rä di Martino (Rome, Italy, 1975) is a visual artist and independent film-maker. Di Martino studied in London where she studied at the Slade School of Art and Chelsea College. She now lives and works in Turin. Her practice explores the passage of time, as well as the discrepancies that differentiate epic narratives from lived experiences. She has exhibited in galleries, museums and and film festivals internationally including: Moma-PS1, NY; Palazzo Grassi, Venice; Tate Modern, London;  NiMK Netherlands Media Arts, Amsterdam; MCA Chicago; Artists Space, New York; the Busan Biennial; Manifesta; the Turin Triennal, Locarno and Torino International Film Festival, Viper Basel and Transmediale Berlin. In 2006 the short film "La camera" with actor Filippo Timi, is funded and acquired for the collection of MACRO, the museum of contemporary art in Rome and is also shown at Center Pompidou and the Locarno Film Festival. With the film work "August 2008" //catalogue.nimk.nl/site/?page=%2Fsite%2Fartist.php%3Fid%3D12931 with actress Maya Sansa //en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maya_Sansa, a tableaux vivant inside a villa Hollywood 50’s style participates to the Rotterdam Film Festival and is shown at MCA Chicago and screened at museums in Berlin, Madrid, Rome and Paris. The double channel video installation The Dancing Kid (2005-2008) with actor Stephen Campbell Moore //en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Campbell_Moore, sees a man abandoned in a desert re-enacting monologues from the Nicholas Ray film Johnny Guitar. This work is invited to the MANIFESTA Biennial in 2008 and the Turin Triennale in 2005 Rä di Martino has published various photographic projects including the series "Untitled (Marilyn)" (2004-2012) in which eveyr year she takes a photograph of the actual tomb of Marilyn Monroe and "No More Stars" //radimartino.tumblr.com (2010-2012)  documenting the remains of abandoned movie sets in North Africa  which seem to become ruins of the imaginary. //www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2013/mar/06/luke-skywalker-house-ra-di-martino She is the daughter of musician and composer Mino Di Martino //it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mino_Di_Martino and Terra Di Benedetto //www.italianprog.com/it/a_albergointergalattico.htm