Simona Muzzi Photo
Art Photography
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Bond_2020
Exhibition on October 7th 2023-Barry_walws-UK
BOND
My mom passed away at the end of 2017. In 2020, I found the strength to face the loss and I made a photographic story giving my pain a personal interpretation through the self-portrait.
When someone dear to you dies, you have to choose whether to keep something of them or let them go altogether. As a daughter, I kept the clothes.
Everyone has a smell and when you decide to wear somebody’s clothes you take that person with you along with the load of pain or joy that arises from them.
Like animals - for which smell has a fundamental importance in mutual recognition - in my mother’s clothes I found her smell and I marked the territory of my future by wearing them and taking them with me on my journey.
From the mourning process to the projection towards my future and that of my family.
Covi-Tude (covid-solitude)
COVI-TUDE (covid-solitude)
All shot in the period of the first lock down It is a story in 4 parts which talks about an alien fallen to earth in the period of the lock down (part I) who arrives in a family and lives in the kitchen where he tries to have fun but feels alone (part II) and locked up by the walls that prevent him from going out (part III) and then finally can go out and go shopping (part IV).
THE FAMILY HOME
The sale of the house, the fear of losing its memory, the move and the gradual abandonment of the place where I lived for forty years with my family, make me feel the urgency of bearing witness to it. Through the diptychs created by pushing my presence into the same image just taken through the self-timer I am able to express the sense of abandonment and disorientation that I am living.
The bathtube
The bathtub of the family home is reinterpreted in a surreal way with the self-portrait technique.
The tub element is transformed into a surreal place where activities take place which find their new location in this furnishing element.
Alive VS Dead
A long weekend in Naples in November 2019, one evening of pouring rain I wander around the Spanish neighborhoods during the inhabitants' working hours and ask them if I can photograph them. In 2021 I will publish the project.
Crash
In this work I addressed the theme of death and selfies in their chilling compulsive meaning. You don't give up a selfie even in the last moment of your life. A random and sudden event such as a car accident reveals this need as an inevitable act and as a dependence and exaltation of one's ego.Strong colours, chromatic contrasts, the tragic nature of the scene is mediated by the environment. The absence of any sign, wound or blood increases the feeling of exasperated silence and loneliness.
“Click”: and I'm on stage.
Anguish - 2018
The pain I've experienced in my life in a way fascinates me. Discover it, understand it, elaborate it. To survive it. What comes out of my images is one of the many ways to get it out from within. It is not necessarily yours. But this way or another you have to do it.
Covid 19 shopping _2020
First lock down. What brings us out of the house? Do the shopping. Self-timer technique.
Fall to Earth_2020
Beginning of semi-liberty. What brings me out of the house? The farm. A single sunflower already in bloom catches my attention. Self-timer technique.
Lost in nowhere_2020
A direct instagram of the many following in this hard period of lock down leads me to meet the photographer Paolo Ventura from which I taken inspiration by building sets using the food I cooked, creating surreal scenes and stories.
Surfaces_2020
Turning around during the lock down on the stairs of my condominium leads me to imagine surfaces and materials in a personal way, giving them a meaning other than mere appearance.
Metaphysical sites_2019
Places reinterpreted in a metaphysical key.
Sunflowers_2020
The newly acquired semi-freedom and summer merge into beauty.
Mare Nostrum?
The early morning window light in the house catches my attention. The plant that has been in our house since I got married creates the necessary scenography. Mare Nostrum? is born on the drownings in the Mediterranean. Self-timer technique.