Photomanipulation nominee

The increase of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere has led to an increase of carbon dioxide in the waters of the oceans, which results in a decrease of pH and the subsequent dissolution of calcium carbonate structures such as shells and molluscs, plankton and corals.
As a result, entire coral reefs have died and others have suffered a developmental setback; the variety of shapes and colours of these natural structures has been replaced by white, translucent, ghostly outlines.
The same outcome seems to have occurred to human structures in Barbara Nati’s digital elaborations: buildings transmuted into evanescent constructions.
Concrete, bricks, steel, everything is corroded and dematerialised, and all that remains of human engineering works are transparent facades.

Barbara Nati, born 1980, is an Italian artist, living and working between Britain and Italy.
She took classes at Parson School of Design, New York.
She has since established an international reputation for her complex compositions-hybrids. Barbara Nati’s oeuvre lies beyond what is commonly intended as photography, mostly standing out for its estranging effect.
Her investigation takes shape through a wise and skilful use of digital and technological tools with a particular focus on environmental issues.
She was awarded the Hari runnerup Art Prize, John Hurt Art Prize in 2021, the Victoria square art project award in 2020, The Ingram collection purchase Prize in 2019, the Bridgeman Studio Award in 2018, the Ashurst Art Prize in 2015, the Andrea Mantegna Prize in 2014 and the Renaissance Art Prize by the Italian cultural Institute of London.
She has exhibited at several Art Fairs including MIA Milan Image Fair,Asia Contemporary Hong Kong,ArtVerona, Peckham international Art Fair andThe Other Art Fair in London.
She has been a resident artist at the Hari Hotel in London in 2023, at the Half moon bay studios in 2022, at European Artists in Olofström, Sweden in 2013 and Digital Arts Studios in Belfast in 2009