Delfina Marcello (Venice 1966 – Mogliano Veneto 2017), a descendent of a patrician Venetian family, was one of the most original and independent artists of her time. Her work consisted as much of film, painting, drawing, photography and writing as of her way of being an artist and a woman – as everybody remembers her – rigorously faithful to the ethics of art and to herself yet with light- ness and allure. A graduate of the Courtauld Institute of Art in London, she expressed herself as filmmaker, painter, illustrator, and cartoon designer. In the 1990’s she worked in New York as script supervisor, sound and photography editor, and cinematographer for independent film productions. In the beginning of 2000’s she taught a master course in TV production and post-production at the University of Padova and art history at the Scuola Internazionale di Grafica in Venice.

She lived and worked in Venice, London, New York, Paris, Berlin, Milan and Mesenzana. She constantly experimented with different forms of artistic expression: from performance to video installation, from old painting techniques to poetry and prose. She wrote and directed short films and animations presented and awarded in major film festivals in the United States, England, Germany, Holland, and Italy.

“A video camera is a taming agent to me. Images are governed by an affective and organic process. I “play” with memory from the perspective of a gift and not a creation, grafting and instability instead of sprouting and opening. Memory becomes an “object” – soft and sensual, with the duty to omit rather than to be precise. The softness is the only transforming agent capable of infiltrating into any kind of system, it’s reproductive quotient has no limits, it’s a positive infection, the carrying element of mutation.”

(Flash Art June – July 2002). She wrote a historic novel, not yet published, entitled “Il medico di Dio” [God’s doctor] set in Venice of the XVII century with a strong component of metaphysics and philosophy which were subjects of her passionate studies.