PAOLA SAMARITANI

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Mar. 2025

It is a photographic book that can tell both of the passage of someone who was in the place immortalised, or of a possible past that has been lived there. That is why the collection is entitled passati (pasts), because in Italian this word can have both meanings.

It is an album of memories. Whose memories they are is not important.

SYLPHS

Jun. 2023

‘Feminine creatures. Shy, often deceitful but sweet and understanding. Carried by the wind, they live halfway between a natural and a spiritual dimension: a perfect synthesis of the balance between the two worlds.’ Depicted in this way in Germanic mythology, they fit perfectly with the image of a woman who appears fragile but is capable of commanding attention.

PILLOW TALKS

Mar 2020 – Jan. 2021

By immortalising the imprint left by different people’s sleep, it is possible to capture a fragment of them that is usually hidden and tends to be private. Sleep is abandonment: it is one of the most intimate, instinctive and sincere gestures. This series of cyanotype is therefore an attempt at portraiture in which the physical presence of the subject becomes marginal, because what is important is the body print left by the subject: their signature on the sheet. Pillow talks is naked story in which absence becomes presence.

TUA

Dec. 2017

A collection of poetry from which most of the verses have been deleted. In this way, a new poem is born from an old one, and the original meaning is transformed into a new meaning. It is a game of searching, extracting, and finding the essence.

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