Marinella Senatore: We Rise by Lifting Others, 2023

We Rise By Lifting Others is a work by Marinella Senatore, and was handcrafted in Apulia, Italy.

Senatore places social connections at the basis of her work and focuses her research on activation, stressing the power of art to start a process of individual and collective emancipation. Of working with light, she says it ‘can prove to be a tool for narration and poetic creation, as well as for resistance and cohesion’. We Rise By Lifting Others is imbued with these qualities.

Marinella Senatore trained as a director of photography at the National Film School in Rome. She designs large-scale light sculptures for public places, museums and festivals worldwide. Known as luminarie, they are significant for their catalytic power – ephemeral structures creating temporary spaces for rituals and socialisation.