
“è una conchiglia che fa una linguaccia e ha una fiamma accesa sopra…. lo so è folle.”
Federica Di Carlo’s research unfolds at the intersection of art and science, investigating the tension between human existence and the natural world through large-scale installations developed in collaboration with physicists and researchers from institutions including MIT, ESO, INAF, and CERN. Her works address those zones of uncertainty and interference that scientific systems often leave unmeasured, translating them into poetic and visual experiences. Among her most significant projects are We Lost the Sea (2018), an environmental installation at the Arsenale della Marina Regia in Palermo developed with MIT atmospheric physicist Daniel James Cziczo and oceanographer Sandro Carniel of the Italian National Research Council, and I See I See (2024), an optical installation presented at the Pyramids of Giza as part of Art D’Égypte, for which she was the only Italian artist selected. She works between Milan and Rome.