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From an American lens spanning Hollywood’s Golden Age to present day, the artist is interested in how iconography is constantly recycled, reconfigured and perpetuated -- from the silver screen to a digital sphere. Furthermore, Calvi works with these depictions to consider how they serve as touchstones for identity creation and a collective memory.

In her photographs & videos, she merges autobiographical, intimate displays of subjectivity with staged visual depictions of women from cinema to explore the impact that collective cultural memories have on the psyche. In her writing, she …