Marco Giovani was born in Modena in 1964. Giovani is creating a series of photographic and installation works in which man seems to return as a mere form and at the same time as a catalyst in a close-knit network of interactions. With their lighter and darker sides, the images and objects created by Giovani reveal codes that govern perception, developing the concepts of the individual, nature and artifacts, and thus offering a sense of dubious potential and ambiguous rules. The great impact and sophistication of his works is always poised between perceptive deception and powerful presence.

He started exhibiting in Reggio Emilia in 1997 for the exhibition Silenzio, sei meditazioni oltre il rumore, with a conceptual work about the elusiveness of identity and of reality, that foreshadows the great change that would have led us to the web. The following year he started producing overlapped shadows of bodies and objects by using graphite powders covered in plastic films, with a misleading photographic effect. By overturning the use of the photographic means, the cycle Alien begins in 2006. Among the most recent exhibitions: Se un giorno d’inverno un viaggiatore, Museo Archeologico (Bologna 2011); The simulacrum of reality, Biennale di Videofotografia (Alessandria, 2011); Eroi! Come noi?, P.A.N. Palazzo della Arti Napoli, (Napoli, 2007); Anteprima, La Quadriennale di Roma (Torino, 2004); Coniugazioni, Castello di Ettersburg (Weimar, 2003).