Nudes nominee

Panta Rei explores the transience of the body and its relationship with time and
matter. Photographs and self-portraits become spaces of transition, in which the
subject opens up to change and allows itself to be carried along by the flow of life.
Each image is a trace of human passage, a fragment of awareness that invites us to
set aside roles, narratives, and fixed definitions.
The project stems from the intention to observe how the body can merge with its
surroundings, even with surfaces marked by time or use, transforming them into
extensions of its gesture. The body dissolves until it becomes an imprint, while
textures and materials enter into dialogue with the energy and temporary presence of
those who pass through them.
Like cave paintings or frescoes, the images are ephemeral witnesses to change and
metamorphosis, reminders of transience and the responsibility of inhabiting the world
with awareness. The project invites us to question the way we live and leave our
mark, the quality of our passage, how we show ourselves to the world, rather than
what we produce.

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.