Ilaria Marotta’s curatorial practice is aimed primarily at publishing projects, which since 2009 include the issuing of a magazine and the publication of artist’s books. The magazine – intended as an area dedicated to criticism and curatorship, a tool for research, design and display – consists of a layered system, and is an investigation and experimentation space for artists and curators, who are invited to deal with the two-dimensional means. Her experience also includes projects developed in public and institutional contexts and a practice of cataloging and classification of images to be used to activate, through a substitutive display, a device of sense, in the absence of a work of art.

Ilaria Marotta is a curator, writer and publisher. Co-founder and co-director of CURA., a curatorial project which revolves around the production of a magazine, an exhibition space and a publishing company. She has a degree in Art History and a Master for Curators of Contemporary Art and Architecture from the University La Sapienza in Rome. She was part of the curatorial departement of Macro, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Rome and consultant for contemporary art at Museum of Contemporary Art (Arcos) in Benevento. Head of the contemporary art section of Italian Encyclopedia Treccani from 2005 to 2007, she has published texts in catalogs of solo and group exhibitions, published by Electa, Charta, quodilibet and Volume! She has curated and co-curated several projects with international artists and she is currently curator of Commercial Road Project in London. She lives and works in Rome.