Sandra Bacchi: May 2023
Sandra Bacchi is a Brazilian-American visual artist based in Pittsburgh. Working with photography, video, and glass, her documentary and conceptual works weave together fiction and truth to tell more open-ended stories about how human beings find common ground. After earning a degree in photography in 1997, Bacchi worked in the Brazilian film industry.
In 2012, she moved to the US and turned her focus to her artistic career. Since then, she has shown her work nationally and internationally, including at the McDonough Museum of Art, Pittsburgh Glass Center, and Houston Center for Photography, and reviewed in publications including LensCratch, Float Photo Magazine, and A Curator. In 2019–2020, Bacchi was an artist in residence at the Pittsburgh Glass Center and joined the organization’s board in 2021. In 2022, Bacchi’s photobook Watermelons Are Not Strawberries was published by Yoffy Press and exhibited as a solo show at Concept Art Gallery in Pittsburgh.
In addition, Bacchi is an artist-in-residence at the 2022-2023 Distillery Residency Program at Brew House Association (BHA). Her work created during the residency can be seen at the Rip, repair, Repeat Group Exhibition at BHA until June 17th. Bacchi’s work will also be part of the Member Exhibition at the 2023 Detroit Glass Art Society Conference in June.
I tell stories that weave together truth and fiction. My current work is a combination of memories from my own life and that others have shared with me. I create collages by combining photographs with abstract and expressive imagery. I hope to create images that reflect the layers of time within a memory and the way that emotions can change over time as we remember them more or less vividly than when they occurred. I see the world and its people as a combination of layers, built up from our ancestors, family history, and life experiences. In my work I focus on human interaction and finding common ground. I hope to encourage people to choose curiosity over judgment and to accept people with different backgrounds than our own.
UPCOMING EXHIBITIONS:
Rip, Repair, Repeat Exhibition, Brew House Association, Apr 20 – Jun 17, 2023, Pittsburgh
Member Exhibition, 2023 Glass Art Society (GAS) Conference, Jun 8 – July 31, 2023, Detroit
