Arena Francesco
Francesco Arena was born in 1966 in Genoa, where he lives and works. An artist and photographer, he has been working for years in the field of art creating projects, including site-specific ones developed in photographic series, polaroids and installations that interact with the use of objects and video projections.
Based on the concept that photography captures only the surface of things, he uses the subject/object to reveal its essence. He works on the idea of "Portrait/Identity" by investigating their origin and symbolic appeal; the body/object as identity is described through the aesthetic codes of mass-media language.