camila girardelli
Tender Excess (Series)
DESCRIPTION
Tender Excess is a staged photographic series created in 2025 between studio and constructed sets in France.
Drawing inspiration from Renaissance and Baroque painting, the work explores how classical visual language can be reinterpreted through contemporary photography and childhood imagination.
Children inhabit carefully composed scenes inspired by historical gestures, symbolic objects, and theatrical light. Their presence introduces tenderness, play, and emotional immediacy into traditionally dramatic compositions, transforming excess into something intimate and human.
Rather than recreating the past, the series establishes a dialogue across time, where inherited visual traditions are reimagined through curiosity, freedom, and imagination.
AUTHOR
Camila Girardelli is a Franco-Brazilian photographer based in France. Her work engages in a dialogue with the visual language of Renaissance and Baroque painting, reinterpreting classical iconography through staged photographic compositions structured around the notions of ritual and imagination.
She undertook art and photography studies through courses at Central Saint Martins in London and the International Center of Photography in New York.
Throughout her career, she has been involved in projects with internationally recognised artists and filmmakers, including artist Vik Muniz, working as a still photographer on the Academy Award–nominated documentary Waste Land (2010).
Her work has been selected for inclusion in the collection of Amy Simon Fine Art, United States.
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