Brief Biography

Salvatore Vitale (b. 1986, Palermo, Italy) is a Swiss-based visual artist, editor and educator. In his multi-layered artistic practice and research, Vitale’s work focuses on the development and complexity of modern societies exploring power structures, impression management and simulations, social cosmologies and technological mediation, whilst making use of expanded documentary analysis, including elements of fiction, speculative storytelling and the use of multiple visual forms.

One of Vitale’s most recent projects is How To Secure a Country (2014-2019). How To Secure a Country – From Border Policing via Weather Forecast to Social Engineering – A Visual Study of 21st-Century Statehood was published by Lars Müller Publishers in June 2019.

Vitale is a lecturer at the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts (HSLU) where he leads the Transmedia Storytelling program. He has led workshops worldwide and is a visiting lecturer at several academies.

Vitale is also the co-founder and editor-in-chief of YET magazine, a Swiss-based international photography magazine that focuses on the evolution of the photography practice within the contemporary art field. Vitale has contributed to and edited several publications, including RESET: Questioning The Image, The Market and The Role of Representation (2021).