Romina Bassu (1982) was born in Rome where she currently lives and works. She studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Rome and the Faculty of Fine Arts in Seville. Over the years, her research has focused more and more on female stereotypes, modelled according to the needs of male culture and a society of consumption. The apprehensive mother, the housewife proud of her talent in the art of ironing, the young woman looking for an husband, the girl eager to look beautiful. These and many others are the subjects of her works that come from a very specific iconography: the Fifties. This is the epoch when a particular female imaginary begins to take shape and inevitably will influence the next twenty years, up to present times.
Bassu has exhibited internationally with solo and group exhibitions in Italy, USA, Germany and South Africa.