Raffaele Piano is a visual artist whose work centers on photography as a medium. His practice engages with queer communities and individuals, using photography as a space for visibility, connection and dialogue. He works across a range of media combining photography, collage and installation. His process merges archival images and original photographs printed on paper and textiles, creating tactile intersections between the physical and digital. His work is deeply inspired by our relationship with social media, photographic archives and the aesthetics of queer magazines, reflecting on how these visual languages shape notions of intimacy, representation and memory. Lately, his research has focused on the body as politics, investigating how it becomes a site of resistance and vulnerability
Alongside his independent work, he has also worked as an art residency coordinator for a photography institute, supporting artists in the development and production of their projects.
He has collaborated with other artists’ projects through photography and video, and documents exhibitions in various galleries, maintaining a close relationship with the local art scene.