Francesco Jodice
Graduated in Architecture, Francesco Jodice began working with photography since 1995. His research is focused on the analysis of the new relationships between social behavior and the urban landscape in different geographical areas. He gives life to projects such as "What We Want" (1997), an atlas on the urban and social behavior through fifty cities in the world, "Secret Traces" (1998), a photographic research based on the shadowing of ordinary people caught in their daily routes. He’s a founding member of Multiplicity, an international network of artists and architects which develops interdisciplinary researches on the processes of transformation of the urban condition and of the social behavior: concerning this project he has exhibited some projects: among others, "USE" (2001) at the Triennale, Milano, "Solid Sea" at Documenta XI (2002) and "Tokyo Voids" (2002) at Rice Gallery in Tokyo. The publishers Skira and Thames & Hudson published in 2004 the first part of the photographic project "What We Want", already presented at Museo Pecci in Prato in 2001. His film "São Paulo_Citytellers" participated in the São Paulo Biennial in 2006 and the Global Cities exhibition at the Tate Modern in London in 2007. In 2008 he participated in the exhibition "Per una Collezione di Fotografia" at the Castello di Rivoli; he was invited to the Fair Play Festival of Lugano and he participated in the Biennial in Brussels. Always in 2008 he was invited by Art for The World and the United Nations to participate in the creation of the film project "Stories on Human Rights", to celebrate the sixtieth anniversary of the Chart of Human Rights; the project was presented at the Théâtre National de Chaillot in Paris. In 2009 he exhibited the movie trilogy "Citytellers" (São Paulo, Aral, Dubai) at the MAMBO in Bologna and in 2010 at the MADRE Museum of Naples. He participated in Documenta Kassel, the Venice Biennial, Liverpool Biennial, Bienal de São Paulo, ICP Triennial of Photography and Video in New York; he exhibited his work at the Tate Modern in London, Reina Sofia in Madrid, Castello di Rivoli, Turin, Maison Européenne de la Photographie in Paris, Castilla y León MUSAC, Mambo in Bologna, CCA Tel Aviv, Winzavod center of Moscow and the Prado in Madrid; His films have been screened out of competition at Film Festivals in Tokyo, New York, Rotterdam, Sydney.