an Italian Anthropologist in Tel Aviv
Fiammetta Martegani is an Italian journalist and curator.
Born in Milan in 1981, she moved to Israel in 2009 to pursue a Ph.D. in Anthropology, focusing on the representation of the Israeli soldier in Israeli art and cinema. She later completed a postdoctoral program in Cinema and Comparative Literature at Tel Aviv University.
Since 2009, she has written extensively on Israel for several Italian newspapers, including Avvenire and Il Foglio, while curating numerous art projects between Italy and Israel.
She is currently the curator of Israeli contemporary art at the Jewish Museum of Lecce (Italy) and leads several artistic initiatives featuring groups of artists from the Otef Gaza region, under the collective project Shemesh.
In 2015 she published her first novel: Life on Mars. In 2017 she published her Ph.D. research: The Israeli Defence Forces’ Representation in Israeli Cinema. In 2021 she published her first guide about Tel Aviv trough the five senses: Tel Aviv - Mondo in tasca.
In 2023 she wrote her second guide trough the five sense about her hometown: Venezia - Luogo dell'anima
She currently lives in Tel Aviv with her partner, Udi, her son Enrico, and her assistant Otto: a beautiful poodle - whose name means “eight” in Italian - rescued from Kiryat Shmona on October 7, 2024, during the last war with Lebanon.
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