Bianca Levrino

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L’arte di narrarsi oltre le sbarre del “Sé”: Il Teatro Sociale come strumento di resistenza alla deumanizzazione carceraria

Personal project
Visual research, book design
2026
Format: 1824 cm
Font in use: Siche (Caterina Santullo)

I paired the text, written by communication science undergraduate (and my niece) Maya Sole Comba, with a series of images that visually contextualize the research she conducted for her BA thesis. With sociological means, the author looked into the Italian penitentiary system, the methods and practices of the social theatre, and what happens (and what are the benefits) when social theatre plays are performed by prisoners. The iconography is digitally available from the following archives: Archivio Storico Istituto Luce, The Grotowski Institute Archive, Living Theatre Archive, and CETEC. I printed the images in riso (fluo-pink and green) and the text in digital at Onomatopee (Eindhoven, the Netherlands) and I bound the publication with a french link stitch, following this tutorial on YouTube.

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Queer Chosen Familying

MA Graduation project
Film, screenplay (with Francesco Brazioli Maresti), poster design
2025
Voiceover with Francesco Brazioli Maresti and Vanni Piccolo
Starring: Luca Locati Luciani and Drifters (Valentina Miorandi and Sandrine Nicoletta)
Thank you Luca Locati Luciani and Aldo Mieli Queer Archive<3
Font in use: OT Parallel (Joana Siniasvkaja)

In December 2024 I visited (and in April 2025 I lived at) the Aldo Mieli Queer Archive in Carrara, Italy. This space collects and preserves traces of memories usually left out of mainstream history. Among these materials, I focused my research on a lifetime collection of postcards, which were addressed to the same recipient and sent by their queer chosen families. In the film I reflect on why this archival space is designed to feel and function like a home to challenge traditional norms. Lingering on the labour of preservation and belonging within a political landscape hostile to queer lives and histories unfolds in three different encounters:

• a dialogue I had over the phone with voiceover actor and scriptwriter (and my brother) Francesco Brazioli Maresti;
  
• the affectionate texts written on the back of the postcards;
  
• two conversations I had with the queer archive’s founder, Luca Locati Luciani, and with the artistic duo Drifters, that was dwelling at the Aldo Mieli at the same time I was living there too.

You may contact me by email if you wish to watch the full-length film.

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Queer Chosen Familying: Traces of recognition in domestic archival spaces (TBD Title)

MA Thesis
Archival research, writing, editorial design
2025
Format: 1219 cm
Font in use: OT Parallel (Joana Siniasvkaja)

This project is under reworking and more on it is expected in the fall of 2026. For a new edition of my thesis I will focus on its most notable and arrived-too-late section: my encounters with the people that make alive these two Italian queer archives, the Flavia Madaschi at Cassero, Bologna, and the Aldo Mieli in Carrara. The existence of these spaces makes possible a recognition of non-normative ways of being families; a recognition that is not feasible on a socio-legal level because of the patriarchal system we live in. The design of the publication won’t change from the one shown here (hence why I’m showing it in the first place) but its contents will be revised completely.

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Art direction for Melted Film Festival 2025

Commissioned project with Abby Yang and Carlotta Salvatori
Editorial design, photography
2025
Font in use: Happy Times at the IKOB (Lucas Le Bihan) and Waxy (custom type designed by Abby, Carlotta, and I by melting wax candles)

Melted is an annual film festival seeking low-budget, DIY, experimental moving image works, from found footage collages to phone camera recordings, silent films, surreal soundscapes, music videos, or animated abstractions. Designed as platform for alternative, cross-disciplinary, and playful filmmaking practices, Melted offers creators the chance to showcase their work to a curious and attentive cinema audience. In 2025, at its third edition, TRASHCLUB, performance collective based in the Netherlands, hosted and opened each of the four screening days with a unique performance that tied with the night themes. The Momentum, Disorientation, Stone, and Love night themes were developed accordingly to the concept of this edition of the festival: as c is the third letter of the alphabet, Melted 2025 revolved around celebration; four nights for celebrating the arts of performance and film, and the people that make them possible.

All the pictures are shot by Abby Yang.

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Earth Station Eindhoven

Academic project with my ID (2023 — 2025) peers during the Critical Cartographies studio held by Soph Dyer.
2024 — 2025

Earth Station Eindhoven autonomously operated with a feminist lens and took a step away from the conventions of what an Earth station should be or do. Within the constraints of a semester long project, Earth Station Eindhoven was established with the potential to become a site of collective and experimental knowledge production. From October to December, Earth Station Eindhoven acquired knowledge of remote and in-situ sensing, contemporary theories of weather and climate, and counter-mapping practices through a series of workshops of collective research and seminars. From December on, Earth Station Eindhoven critically engaged with the activation of its sensing, trasmitting, and archiving processes of data concerning the climate crisis. Eventually, a ceremony showcasing the project’s research, stories, and sensibilities took place in April.
Earth Station Eindhoven (December — April): Infrastructure for an in-between world

Academic project with Carlotta Salvatori and Francesca Dondi
Research, workshop with Boram Koh, multimedia installation
2024 — 2025

This project serves as an attempt to create a healthy response to an unhealthy environment: from our very first steps, Carlotta, Francesca, and I were interested in collecting information about the effects of climate change on human bodies, both their physical and psychic dimensions. As we felt that a space where people could discuss about these matter was lacking, we decided to create a platform to enable moments of collective sharing. Our aim was understanding how such a platform could be designed in a safe way. Firstly, to imagine this platform, we read feminist theorists to shape a glossary. Secondly, we turned to psychotherapy to understand the importance of shared contexts for the expression, containment, and mobilisation of climate anxiety into a positive social change. Lastly, to alleviate oppressive feelings towards the climate we took part in collective actions by attending an action training in Nijmegen. From the conversations we had during there we learned about the power of a space enriched by mutual care and the importance of questioning the meaning of non-violence. Through our research we realised that the proper shape of our platform is a space that can be collectively lived. Luckily, while designing this project, we met Boram Koh during a weaving workshop on climate emotions she held at DAE and asked her to collaborate with us. Ultimately, the platform is the time spent together, visualised through weaving.

All the pictures are shot by Francesca Dondi.

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Walking as a Practice: Looking through the lens of a graphic designer

Academic project
Artistic research, photography, book design
2023
Format: A5 (14,821 cm)
Font in use: Laica (Alessio D’Ellena) and Monument Grotesk (Kasper-Florio and Dinamo)

This publication is designed as a field research and photographic notebook. With it, I rendered a walking path I took in the northern outskirts of Eindhoven while looking for causes and effects of the nitrogen crisis in the Netherlands. When putting a title on this project, I tried to synthetically convey my approach and posture towards it: embracing walking as a mean of slowing down and working on a small scale of visual signs and patterns helped me out in the aim of making visible (the evidence of high levels of nitrogen in the air) what is often invisible to the eye and to the negationists of this crisis. More on this social and political matter can be found at these one and two links. This bodies of research explain the reason why the Dutch government decided to cut the emission of nitrogen and how this action sparked debates and protests all over the country.

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Art direction for Transiti Psicologia d’Espatrio

Commissioned projects
Editorial design, digital collage
2023 — 2026

Transiti Psicologia d’Espatrio is a social cooperative (non-profit) that promotes the psychological wellbeing of people in trajectories of international mobility. Transiti offers online psychological support services in Italian and works on education, research and scientific divulgation. I am a member of the cooperative and I work with the communications team. My role is to oversee the visual communication for the website, as well as for posts published on Instagram and the online magazine, while I design the visual deliverables requested by the cooperative. With Transiti’s visuals I avoid using professional, stock, or otherwise mainstream images. This is a choice that aims at building a representation that is capable of expressing the profound meaning of the topics that the cooperative discusses and divulgates. The imagery is constructed with vintage-looking representations and thought through a metaphorical lens: an image of a suitcase inside a collage is no longer just an item containing personal effects: the suitcase carries with it the thoughts and doubts, hopes and worries of those entering an expatriation trajectory.
All the collages’s cutout elements are under CC0 1.0 license and accessible through these two digital archives: flickr.com and web.archive.org

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Last update: 07/2026

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Selected mix of client and personal works (2023 — 2026)