№044 12012024
Chiara Benzi
(b. 1994, Italy) is an artist and photographer based in Bologna. She graduated in Drama, Art and Music Studies at the University of Bologna.
Alongside she attended the Photography Centre Spazio Labo’ and continued her studies with a Master at Centro Sperimentale di Fotografia Adams in Rome. Her practice is realized through physical and digital manipulation of her own photographs and archival images, reflecting on the interaction and interpretation of the imaginary encountered in a personal manner, and oscillating between familiarity and alienation. Her work has been exhibited in several group exhibitions around Italy and Europe. In 2021 she was selected as a FRESH EYES Talent by GUP Magazine and as one of “New Talents 2021” by Photographic Exploration Project. She currently works with realities active in the field of music and performing arts.
Alongside she attended the Photography Centre Spazio Labo’ and continued her studies with a Master at Centro Sperimentale di Fotografia Adams in Rome. Her practice is realized through physical and digital manipulation of her own photographs and archival images, reflecting on the interaction and interpretation of the imaginary encountered in a personal manner, and oscillating between familiarity and alienation. Her work has been exhibited in several group exhibitions around Italy and Europe. In 2021 she was selected as a FRESH EYES Talent by GUP Magazine and as one of “New Talents 2021” by Photographic Exploration Project. She currently works with realities active in the field of music and performing arts.
"How much can a body endure?" Benzi asks herself.
She explores our longings and fears projected onto nature and what our bodies can endure, starting with the physical body and then lifting off into a more oneiric space. The project transcends our dysfunctional coexistence with nature, embracing a fantasy in which a woman becomes a dream, an animal, a plant… A woman returns to soil, returns to frailer form. Using photography, video and sound, her work aims to involve the viewer in a dreamlike voyage through the most hungry, lustful, disgusting, vulnerable part of herself speaking. At the same time, she seeks a link between personal and collective, between introspection and connection, creating the ambiguity ratio, the double entendre, and the double meaning.
She explores our longings and fears projected onto nature and what our bodies can endure, starting with the physical body and then lifting off into a more oneiric space. The project transcends our dysfunctional coexistence with nature, embracing a fantasy in which a woman becomes a dream, an animal, a plant… A woman returns to soil, returns to frailer form. Using photography, video and sound, her work aims to involve the viewer in a dreamlike voyage through the most hungry, lustful, disgusting, vulnerable part of herself speaking. At the same time, she seeks a link between personal and collective, between introspection and connection, creating the ambiguity ratio, the double entendre, and the double meaning.
