[1] Toderi is inspired in part by Giotto and other early 14th-century painters, but "draws more heavily on contemporary experience, from distant views of cities glowing at night to the zero-gravity ballets of the U.S. space programs".
[2] Latvia's NOASS has described Toderi as first gaining critical attention in 1993 after participating in the 45th Venice Biennale, and "often referred to as one of the most important contemporary artists, working in fields of video projection and installation art and is recognized for her iconic use of aerial images of nighttime metropolitan cities.
Red Babel/Rosso Babele is a "two channel colour video projection with audio track,"[7] or "composed of two contiguous ovals that mimic human binocular vision and are also an homage to the planisphere, an ancient tradition of terrestrial and celestial mapping.
Grazia Toderi and Désiré Despradelle: Spectacular Cities was curated by Gary Van Zante, with the assistance of Jonathan Duval, and organized by the MIT Museum.
[28] Words and Stars was also shown at Infini-to, the Planetarium of Turin (Infini.to – Planetario di Torino, Museo dell'Astronomia e dello Spazio) by invitation.
The list is reproduced on the artist's website, and includes writings from 1993 to 2008, with the most recent being Toderi's Fontana, luce, colore, published in Milan in 2008.
Works in the Castle of Rivoli's permanent collection are Il Decollo (The Take-Off) 1998, L'atrio (The Atrium) 1998, Spettatori (Audience) 2000, and Subway Series 2001.
[36] Her work has been described by the John Curtin Gallery as containing "intriguing reference to physics – from optics to cosmology," and embedded with "highly charged sonic atmospheres," seamlessly "combined to suspend you between the wonder of luminous nightscapes and star-filled vistas with a disarming sense of surveillance and awe.