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Marina Ballo Charmet was born in Milan where she lives and works. Since the mid-eighties she has been working with photography and video. At the same time, she has been working as child psychotherapist for more than thirty years.
Her privileged subject is the everyday, the “always seen” that she defines as “the background noise of our mind”.
She chooses a look characterized by perceptive mobility and out of focus, lateral or from below – typical of child’s condition – which give back a fluctuating vision, a “peripheral perception” linked to our preconscious.
She exhibited in numerous museums and institutions in Italy and abroad. Among her personal shows: Out of Sight, Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa, Venezia (2022), Tatay, Triennale , Milan (2021), Fuori campo, Italian Cultural Institution, Madrid (2019); Au bord de la vue, Le Point du Jour, Cherbourg (2019), Museo MAGA Gallarate (2018), Bleu du Ciel, Lyon (2018); milanopiazzaduomo (with Gabriele Basilico), Museo del Novecento, Milan (2015); Sguardo terrestre, MACRO Rome (2013); At Land. Bodyscape & Cityscape, Storefront for Art and Architecture, New York (2009); Il Parco, Triennale, Milan (2008); Marina Ballo Charmet, Centre National de la Photographie, Paris (1999).
She partecipated at XII Biennal Internazional di Architecture Exhibition Biennal of Venice in 2010 and at XLVII International Art Exhibition Biennal of Venice in 1997. 
She published several books and catalogues among them: Urv-àra, Segnature 21 (2021); Con la coda dell’occhio. Scritti sulla fotografia, Quodlibet (2017) Out of the corner of my eye. Writings on photography, Quodlibet (English edition, 2021), Au bord de la vue. Linee biografiche, Danilo Montanari Editore (2018), Sguardo Terrestre, MACRO-Quodlibet (2013),  Oracoli, santuari e altri prodigi. Sopralluoghi in Grecia, Humboldt-Quodlibet (2013), Il parco, Charta (2008), Marina Ballo Charmet, Fotografie e video 1993/2007, Electa (2007), Primo campo, Le Point du jour Éditeur (2004), Rumore di fondo, Art& (1998), Con la coda dell’occhio, Art& (1995), Il limite,  Italian and French  Cultural Association, Bologna, Bari (1992)