Hi, welcome. I’m Chiara.
I’m an artist, working primarily with photography and videography, a curator, which I approach as an artistic practice as well, and a researcher in Art Transformation. Trained in Arts and Creative Industries Management, I maintain in me the interlocked duality of artistic and organizational practice. My aim, throughout all I do, is to find ways to put people powerfully in touch with themselves and to create glimpses of “intense life” through art, intended as moments of connectedness; to the self, to others, to things, to the world.
Through photography I contemplate. In my fear of what’s truly important getting lost, I cut out what’s not relevant. Nature, structures, ruins, objects, symbols, light, impersonal human figures are the main elements that quietly and modestly populate my photographs, tightly locked in space, and serve as vital interpreters of the poetry that penetrates all things, fitting into a reflection on time, impermanence, feelings of belonging and inadequateness, mystery and sacrality. All the stories one can build from the subjects of my photography are posterior attempts to build a narration, which is very welcome from the viewers’ side. I won’t do it, though. Some things in the world simply “hit me”, without provoking any form of judgement, on what they are, for instance, used to be or what they are destined for.
As a curator, which I see and experience as an artistic practice, rooted in intersectional artistic fields, I strive to create the conditions for art to be truly transformative for people and for the art experience to be extra-ordinary.
Expert in issues of anthropology, museum studies and community development, I see art as the most potent, tangible means we have to impact the world for the better, that is, by empowering people to feel, learn and be in touch with themselves. I strive to create associations between fields, seek multisensory and hone my artistic sensitivity to create liminal spaces for communitas to emerge.