Conceptual nominee

The memory of women, silenced for a long time, described the political and social changes with different sensitivities and language. Maria Luisa di Borbone and Elisa Bonaparte Baciocchi became the keystone for a story that until now has been only partially told.

A new point of view for the analysis of a very complex historical period when Europe was dominated by Napoleon. Compared with the traditional historiography, the negative assessment of the sovereigns has been completely redesigned. Her memories build the identity of sovereigns continually tested. They endowed with fortitude, intelligence, and resourcefulness. They were careful observers of the cultural and artistic dimension of their time.
Female heroines who ruled in solitude and defended their autonomy.
They reveal the active role of women in the cultural life of the XIX century and they deserve to be remembered in the history of art, music and feminism.
The artist's language is abstract and timeless. The decay precipitates in colder, yet vibrant colours. The expanses of colour create a dazzling visual amplitude. Although they do not have a relationship with reality, they retain its essence. The shapes lead you into a universal tale where contrasts always find a way to complete each other.

Nicoletta Cerasomma is a photographer and pop surrealist artist with a background in staged photography. After studying photography since 1997, she realised her love for storytelling so, in the latest years, she had evolved from fashion photographer to independent artist focused on production of nuanced photographic tableaux.
Her work is highly conceptual and complex: as surrealist artist, she incorporates archetypes and cultural iconography with satirical narratives inspired by the collective unconscious. Leaning into the visual language of pop surrealism, she stages narrative compositions that expose the underbelly of modern life.
Since 2020 she won a lot of nominations and awards thanks to her work which depicts women placed in suggestive scenarios. Presented for the first time to Sony World Photography Award her work was selected as a winner finalist. She also won the Julia Cameron Award, the Pollux award and currently she is a chosen winner of the American Photography and nominated Fresheyes and Gup Magazine talent of the year 2021.
Her work was exhibited in New York, London, Moscow, Barcelona and continues to show in international galleries. She is currently working on new diptych projects.