Chiara Bettazzi

Chiara Bettazzi is an Italian contemporary artist based in Prato. Her practice engages with Tuscany’s industrial landscape, exploring the relationship between industrial heritage, everyday objects, and urban regeneration. She is the founder of the former industrial space in Via Genova and of SC17 studio, established in 2005 within the former Bini textile mill as a platform for artistic research and cultural activation. Her work reflects on consumer culture, disposability, and compulsive accumulation. Through installations, assemblages, and site-specific projects, she reinterprets industrial materials and found objects, transforming them into new aesthetic and social narratives. Since 2015 she has directed TAI – Tuscan Art Industry, a laboratory focused on productive reconversion within former Tuscan factories. She also coordinates Industrial Heritage Map, a project dedicated to mapping and archiving the industrial heritage of Prato and the Val di Bisenzio area. Her long-term intervention Orto in Fabbrica merges art, workers’ memory, and sustainability. She has collaborated in set design and artistic direction projects with international brands such as Red Valentino, Replay, and Luisa Via Roma.