I work across writing, image theory, and fiction. I am drawn to what persists within images: scraps, ghosts, residues. In my essays and narratives I weave together personal memory, archival research, and voice-based devices. My practice moves through photographic material, hybrid forms, and processes of autofiction as a method of thought. I write to bring into view what remains out of frame.
Sara Benaglia is a writer and researcher working at the intersection of images, memory, and narrative. She is the author of Immagini infestate (Mimesis, 2026) and the bilingual essay SHOOT (forthcoming). Her research spans photography, archival practices, and contemporary art. She has collaborated with institutions such as BACO – Base Arte Contemporanea Odierna, CCA Kitakyushu, and Viafarini. She is currently developing a novel that weaves together personal experience and fiction, inspired by the years she spent working in the contemporary art field. She teaches Art History at NABA, Milan (Design Department), and at LABA in Brescia. She lives and works between Bergamo and Milan.
CONTACT
saramarghe@gmail.com
Instagram: @sara__benaglia
For Postmedia Books she has translated Why Fonts Matter (2024) by Sarah Hyndman, Narratology in Practice (2024) by Mieke Bal, The Art of Memory in the Contemporary World (2024) by Andreas Huyssen, and Forgetting Photography (2023) by Andrew Dewdney.
Sara has published Note ai margini della storia dell’arte (Postmedia, 2023), The Mobility of the Matrix (Lubrina Editore, 2021), and Casting the Circle (Fortino Editions, 2015). She is also co-author, with Mauro Zanchi, of the four-volume research project Metafotografia (Skinnerboox, 2019–2021).