Sara Alberani
is an independent curator and organizer based in Rome. Her research focuses on socially engaged art practices with communities and public spaces, addressing class struggles and social and climate justice through long-term projects. Since 2020 she co-directes LOCALES, a curatorial platform dedicated to site-specific interventions and decolonial practices in Rome’s public space. She was part of the refugee justice community center Trampoline House in Copenhagen, co-curating its participation in documenta 15, Kassel, 2022. Her projects have been presented at international institutions including documenta, La Biennale di Venezia, Manifesta, de Appel Amsterdam, Centro Pecci, Fondazione Brescia Musei, RomaEuropa Festival, Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Museo delle Civiltà, Istituto Svizzero di Roma, MANN, Real Academia de España en Roma, La Virreina Centre de l’Imatge, and Short Theatre Festival. Her current research investigates the impacts of extractivism and capitalism on hydro-ecosystems in her home region, Emilia-Romagna, Italy, framing bodies of water as political subjects of insurgency and resistance.