Paola Epifani, alias Rabarama, was born in Rome in 1969.
She lives and works in Padova.
The daughter of an artist, from her early childhood she showed an inborn talent for sculpture. She attended the Arts High School in Treviso, and later the Venice Academy of Fine Arts.  She graduated with top honours in 1991 and then participated in a large number of national and international sculpture competitions, receiving growing acclaim both with the critics and the general public alike.
 
Her work is founded on a particular vision of the world and life, based on the confrontation of free will, the predestination of events and the consequent risk of man being reduced to a mere biological computer. The artist’s subjects mostly have absent gazes, and are conditioned by a world governed purely by cause-effect relationships, whose common denominator is the standardised programming of the species.
The humanity of her subjects juxtaposed with the elements that take away individuality make for powerful and compelling viewing.
Rabarama’s work is in international private and public collections.  In 2011 her place in the artworld was confirmed by her selection to represent Italy in the Italian Pavilion of the 54th Venice Biennale.