Fabio Sandri was born in Valdagno, (VI), in 1964. His artistic research is characterised by a plastic conception of the photographic medium, investigated in its essence as an imprint on a photosensitive support in direct contact with the materiality of places or as a continuous imprint in temporal becoming. Human presence and temporal physicality precipitated in the photographic material, or in works in which film imprints are added to those of the environmental situation, in open processes of construction.
He has exhibited his research in several solo and group exhibitions curated by leading theorists such as Italo Zannier, Daniela Palazzoli, Elio Grazioli, Tim Otto Roth, Eva Fabbris, Simone Menegoi, Luca Panaro, Roberto Maggiori and others. He has exhibited in several international exhibitions in Italy and Europe, including: Galerja Scuc (Ljubljana, SLO), Kettle’s Yard (Cambridge, UK); Fotografia Europea (Reggio Emilia); Artforum (Berlin, D); Kurpfalzischmuseum (Heildelberg, D); Museo d’ Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di S.Marino (RSM); Extra City Kunsthal in Antwerp (B); SIFEST (Savignano, FC), Museo Salinas (Palermo), MAMBo (Bologna).
His work can be found in several significant publications on Italian and international photography: Mario Cresci, Future images, Motta Editore, Milan, 2009. Sergio Giusti, Fabio Sandri, in AA.VV: Fotografia Europea – Eternità, Electa ed., Reggio Emilia, 2009. Elio Grazioli, Uno sguardo italiano, Cartaditalia, 2011. Tim Otto Roth, Korper. Projection. Bild. Eine Kulturgeschichte der shattenbilder. Wilhem Fink, 2015. Simone Menegoi, The camera blind spot II and III – Extra City Kunsthal, Antwerp (B), 2015 ; Banca di Bologna, 2016. Marc Lenot, Jouer contre les appareils. Photosyntheses, Arles, 2017. Luca Panaro and Marcello Sparaventi, Centrale. Research photography in Italy. Editrice Quinlan, 2018.