Marina Sagona  Marina Sagona (born 1967) is an Italian and American artist living in New York City. She works in a variety of visual media around the concept of control and identity in connection to codependency relationships, often collaborating with other artists. Sagona is the recipient of the 2017 Strategic 50 Award and of the 2019 Domus Artist Residency in Galatina, Italy. Sagona was born in Rome  and attended the Liceo Ginnasio Statale Virgilio and the Sapienza University of Rome. She first started her artistic career as an illustrator working in the publishing world. In Rome she worked as assistant to artist Mario Schifano, one of the most significant and pre-eminent artists of Italian post-modernism. In 1995, she moved to the United States and began to contribute regularly to The New Yorker and The New York Times. In 2006, Sagona wrote and illustrated the book "No, Anna e il cibo", based on her experience after her daughter was diagnosed with a rare form of infantile anorexia. Afterwards Sagona gradually abandoned illustration for visual art. In 2014, she co-curated the show "Dante Ferretti: Design and Construction for the Cinema" at MoMA. The video "Self-Portrait" (25:55 minutes) is a group of six interviews with six different women, including the artist, on six different topics. The first two interviews are colored in green, the third and fourth in white and the fifth and sixth in red. The six protagonists are: Judith Thurman (writer), Ingrid Rossellini (professor), Anna Siciliano (student), Marina Sagona (artist), Giovanna Calvino (author) and Anna Funder (writer). Judith Thurman talks about her parents and her childhood; Ingrid Rossellini talks about moving to New York city in the early eighties and political correctness; Anna Siciliano talks about the difference between American and Italian upbringing and also about anxiety; Marina Sagona talks about codependence and abandonment; Giovanna Calvino talks about depression and approval; Anna Funder talks about chemical identity. Through the words of these women, the self-portrait of the artist takes shape. Sagona's "The Prisoner" is a cycle about co-dependence exhibited at the Fondaco Gallery, Rome, in connection with the 13th edition of the Rome Film Fest. As Claire Messud writes in the essay on this work, “Codependent love entails a passionate devotion to the unrequited, a desire for self-abnegation.