Build Sorrows and Drown Them in Buildings (2021) Photography by Cristiana Bezerra
Seller ArtMajeur by YourArt
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Original Artwork (One Of A Kind)
Photography,
Analog photography
on Paper
- Dimensions Height 22in, Width 14.4in
- Artwork's condition The artwork is in perfect condition
- Framing This artwork is not framed
- Categories Photographs under $5,000 Impressionism Architecture
An investigation of around 200 photographs of city landscapes, where Rome is the reference playground, but there are also other Italian cities such as Naples and Bari. The focus of the project is in subverting the -ordinary and gray- concrete vision of the daily life in the urban context, through the magnetic force of color. A new dimension is returned to buildings, streets and metropolitan panoramas, in other words, Color Against Concrete gives us the possibility of traveling well beyond the established threshold.
In this path the analogue photographic process plays a fundamental role. By relying on pre-exposed or pre-sensitized 35mm film, such as Lomochrome Purple, Dubble Film Stereo and Revolog, traditional colors are altered, pushed to a completely unexpected visual and sensorial level.
An itinerary that is structured both on the immediacy of the shot and on the slow process of its development, scanning and digital editing of images. In this phase the material added value of the film merges with the ethereal one of the imagination. Through the relocation of the elements of the image and the tonal exaltation, the work of photographic re-elaboration is the last stage of the journey. To reflect, distort and dream of a new vision of the metropolitan context.
Some images of the project are published by Lomogrphy Magazine.
Cristiana Bezerra de Menezes Signorelli is a fine art photography artist who specializes in surrealism. She comes from a mixed South American-European background, with half Italian and half Brazilian roots, and was born in Quito, Ecuador in 1986. As an internationally recognized artist, she is constantly traveling around the world and currently resides in Rome, Italy.
Her journey began with a degree in photography, followed by a career in advertising, film, and fashion photography. She has had numerous magazine publications and has taught photography while also managing photography-related projects. Her experience has led her to fully dedicate herself to fine art photography, where she explores new surrealistic perspectives.
Influenced by artists such as Maya Deren, Marc Chagall, Michal Pudelka, Claude Chaun, and André Breton, she uses the archetypes of beauty and visual narrative insolence to investigate a complex milieu parallel to the surrounding reality.
Her artistic themes involve the deconstruction of the cornerstones of the dream. This includes the absence of space-time contours, the repetitive nature of the subject, the chromatic decontextualization of urban spaces, and the exploration of human duality.
She uses both analog and digital photography to embody her visual analysis. In some of her projects, these mediums can be present in the same photograph through a long and complex process of film development, scanning, and digital image editing. The value of the film merges with the ethereal one of the imagination, which the artist aims to preserve with a "manual" editing process. Each component of her photographs is created, modified, and inserted following only a self-thought creative process.
Currently, she is working on several photographic series that total almost 300 images. These images are the result of long research based on the themes of architecture and photography of human subjects.
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Nationality:
ITALY
- Date of birth : 1986
- Artistic domains: Represented by a Gallery,
- Groups: Contemporary Italian Artists Artists presented by a gallery
