work
Crisis
| category | Photography |
| subject | Human figure, Beauty |
| tags | crisis, rinascimenti privati, renaissance, rebirth, scream, selfportrait, autoritratto, teresacarnuccio, rinascita |
| base | 100 cm |
| height | 150 cm |
| depth | 0 cm |
| year | 2013 |
“Crisis" is about a turning point, a brighter scream that breaks into the shadows, the beginning of something new and powerful coming from a place of desperation. It is about hope and change.
Crisis is part of Rinascimenti Privati, literally translated as Private Renaissances, a project that explores the themes of healing and rebirth that have been central to my artistic research and practice in the last years.
Classical looking female figures are represented in their quest for a deeper awareness, through painful yet revelatory initiations to the life/death/life cycle.
The use of a limited color palette (black, white, shades of nude with gold and red accents) and the complete elimination of the subjects’ identity and time-space context are aimed at keeping the narrative elements to a minimum, getting to the core of the act or moment depicted.
The women I portray are often concealed by a veil or mask, confined in a liminal space that protects their evolving nature, like a cocoon, but at the same times separates them from their true essence and wholeness. The woman will have to tear the veil apart, honor her scars and allow what must die to die.
Only through this cyclical process of auto-regeneration can she tap into her inner power and rediscover a quiet confidence in the divine feminine within her.
Rinascimenti Privati is a self portrait project, presented as a series of large limited edition archival prints.
Crisis is part of Rinascimenti Privati, literally translated as Private Renaissances, a project that explores the themes of healing and rebirth that have been central to my artistic research and practice in the last years.
Classical looking female figures are represented in their quest for a deeper awareness, through painful yet revelatory initiations to the life/death/life cycle.
The use of a limited color palette (black, white, shades of nude with gold and red accents) and the complete elimination of the subjects’ identity and time-space context are aimed at keeping the narrative elements to a minimum, getting to the core of the act or moment depicted.
The women I portray are often concealed by a veil or mask, confined in a liminal space that protects their evolving nature, like a cocoon, but at the same times separates them from their true essence and wholeness. The woman will have to tear the veil apart, honor her scars and allow what must die to die.
Only through this cyclical process of auto-regeneration can she tap into her inner power and rediscover a quiet confidence in the divine feminine within her.
Rinascimenti Privati is a self portrait project, presented as a series of large limited edition archival prints.
