Fine Art nominee

We are made of cycles. Births, transformations, waits. Some creations take shape quickly, others have slower incubations. Some never come to be, but even what doesn’t emerge leaves an imprint. Nothing is truly wasted: every experience, every fragment of life settles and transforms. To die and be reborn is not only of the flesh: it is of thoughts, desires, and projects. And sometimes, like in a cocoon, we remain wrapped in the wait for the right time to open up again.

Laetitia Farellacci (1977) is an Italian-French photographer whose research has developed over more than twenty-five years as a space for personal and visual exploration.
Growing up in the silence of the darkroom, she explored various photographic languages until she found her own expressive territory in self-portraiture and the forms of nature. Her practice investigates themes related to roots, identity, and memory, gradually opening up to a vision in which the separation between subject and world is blurred.
Her Corsican origins have profoundly influenced her sensibility: the island where she grew up until adolescence continues to permeate her work through atmospheres, contrasts, light, and matter.

The self-portrait becomes for her an instinctive space for experimentation, in which the body is an instrument of listening and crossing over. Each project stems from a process of perception and inner transformation that translates into a visual narrative capable of going beyond the individual story, opening up to a broader and shared dimension of experience.