Viviana Bonura (Palermo, 1999) is an italian lens-based artist.
Her research focuses on the themes of identity and existence through the use of human presence and the body, often her own. She explores the individual both as a singular entity and as part of a collectivity by taking into consideration the surrounding space and its emotional history.
She investigates the delineation and dissolution of boundaries by diving into concepts such as liminal spaces, hereditary traumas, and the connection between dreams and reality. Her work is rooted in the ambiguity of the symbolic manifestation of something held in our deepest and most human form.
She graduated with honors in Graphic Design at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Palermo and studied Media at the National College of Art and Design in Dublin. She self-published “Born from salt” (2022) as a book and the project got transformed into her first solo exhibition at 2LAB Gallery (Catania, Italy), later taking part to many group exhibitions worldwide.