Rebecca Salvadori
Rebecca Salvadori is an Italian-Australian artist and filmmaker working across moving image, live performance and installation. Over the past fifteen years, she has developed a distinctive body of work at the intersection of contemporary art and experimental music, creating intimate portraits of musicians, clubs and communities that blur the boundaries between documentary, expanded cinema and performance. Rather than treating film as a fixed medium, she approaches it as a way of thinking, developing works that take the form of films, performances, site-specific commissions and expanded moving-image installations.
Selected works include Rave Trilogy (2017–2020), The Sun Has No Shadow (2022), TRESOR TAPES (2022), Messengers(2022–ongoing), A Forbidden Distance (2024– ongoing) and Not Running (2026). Collaboration is central to her practice, and she has worked with artists and musicians including Lucy Railton, Nhu Xuan Hua, Mark Fell, Coby Sey, Okkyung Lee, Saint Abdullah, Eomac, Charlie Hope and Alabaster DePlume.
Her work has been presented at the Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA), London; FOMU – Photography Museum Antwerp; Triennale Milano; the Serralves Museum, Porto; and BETA – Timișoara Architecture Biennial, among others, as well as at major experimental music festivals including Sonic Acts Biennial, CTM, Berlin Atonal, Unsound, Rewire, Le Guess Who? and Sónar. In 2025, she received an Italian Council grant from the Italian Ministry of Culture to develop and produce her first feature-length film internationally.
SELECTED PROJECTS
NOT RUNNING
2026 · Film / live programme / artist talk
A 34-minute film and live programme built through running, music, choreography and a rotating light sculpture. Developed with Sandro Mussida, Charlie Hope, GAISTER and EhV, the work considers filmmaking as a form of time perception: the time of shooting, watching, editing and performing. Commissioned by adidas Special Projects and premiered at The Feuerle Collection, Berlin, in 2026.
Available as a film screening, expanded live programme and artist talk.
A FORBIDDEN DISTANCE
2024–ongoing · Live audiovisual performance
A collaborative audiovisual work by Rebecca Salvadori, Saint Abdullah and Eomac, bringing moving image, sound and live performance together as one environment.
Approx. 1 hour. Available in an expanded version with Charlie Hope.
NOT A WORD FROM ME
2024–ongoing · Live audiovisual performance
A collaborative live work by Rebecca Salvadori, Lucy Railton and Charlie Hope in which moving image, sound and light are composed as a single environment. Each presentation can respond to the architecture and conditions of its site. Approx. 1 hour.
MESSENGERS
2022–ongoing · Film / live A/V / site-specific event / installation
An evolving film and expanded moving-image project that uses filmmaking itself as a public, collaborative and continuously changing process.
Messengers can take the form of a standalone 23'51" film, an approximately one-hour live A/V presentation, an extended site-specific event, a public film set / live filming process, or a single- or multi-channel installation.
Artist talks, Q&As and workshops on collaborative and expanded filmmaking can also accompany the project.
SELECTED FILM PROGRAMMES
Screenings / curated programmes / artist conversation
Rebecca Salvadori's films can also be presented as curated screening programmes exploring her long-term engagement with music, friendship and club cultures.
Films on Music may draw from Thank You, My Pain, All We Got Is Us in the Moment and Portraits of Friends.
Club Culture: Double Bill brings together The Sun Has No Shadow and TRESOR Tapes, followed by a conversation on filming, archiving and documenting club culture.
