Gabriella Sacco’s audiovisual installations deal with the nature of computer-based animation and the filmic medium. Puppetry, time and editing are the central mechanisms of the videos’ compositions, mimicking actual reality and life itself. Such elements play with realism and artifice, danger and harmless simulations, resulting in an ambiguous tension between fright and playfulness. Through to this fully constructed medium, the works are made to follow a circular structure, obsessively repeating scenes and enclosing them within a continuous temporal loop. Yet CGI animation also serves as an experimental field in which simulations can create unforeseen variations in form, movement and image.
Gabriella Sacco (Italy, b. 2002) is a visual artist based in Switzerland. She graduated in 2025 at the Academy of Fine Arts of Brera in Milan.
Exhibitions / screenings
Rencontres Internationales Traverse, Centre Culturel Bellegarde, Toulouse, FR (2026).
LokaFilmFest, Morbegno, IT (2026)
Fondazione Antonio Ratti, Aperto, curated by Annie Ratti and Lorenzo Benedetti, Como, IT (2025).
AA29 Gallery, Caserta, IT (2025).
Czong Institute for Contemporary Art, Gwangju-si, KR (2025).
Klet Gallery, Zagreb, HR (2025).
Animafest Zagreb, Cinema SC, Zagreb, HR (2025).
Palazzo Avogadro, The Long Now, Brescia, IT (2025).
Al deserto, Micelio, Chiavenna, IT (2025).
Art Gallery Finestreria, Visioni Oltre, curated by Claudia Ponzi and Irene Follador, Milan, IT (2025).
Icona Film Festival, online screening (2024).
Grafixx 2024, De Cinema, Antwerp, BE (2024).
Digital Kunst Festival, Theaterhaus Stuttgart, Stuttgart, DE (2024).
London Lift-Off Festival, online screening (2024).
Sàff Film Festival, Chiesa dei Cristallini, Naples, IT (2024).
Spazio Pantaneo, Simposio, Rome, IT (2024).
Awards
Golden Lion International Film Festival, Best Experimental Short: Untitled (Swing), Kolkata (2025)
Absurd Film Festival, Best don't watch it when you're eating Award: Portrait Of A Mute Man, Milan (2024).
Sàff Film Festival, Best animation nomination: Portrait Of a Mute Man, Naples (2024).
Lift-Off Film Festival, Audience Award: Portrait Of a Mute Man (2024).
Artistic Residencies
Low Realism Artists Research Laboratory with Ed Atkins, Fondazione Antonio Ratti, Como (2025).
Education
Lucerne University of Applied Arts and Sciences, Lucerne, Switzerland. MA Experimental and Documentary Film (2025-present).
Brera Academy of Fine Arts, Milan, Italy. BA Set Design (2021-2024).
Studio Azzurro, Milan, Italy. Internship (2023).
Brera Academy of Fine Arts, Milan, Italy. Artistic Practice, Pedagogy and New Technologies Workshop with Valerio Rocco Orlando (2022).
Brera Academy of Fine Arts, Milan, Italy. Light and contemporary technologies for performance Workshop with Angelo Linzalata and Vincenzo Sansone (2022).